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Word: sipper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...section headed "Up From the Ape" the poll aims to determine whether the subject is a confirmed beer guzzler, a sipper only on social occasion, or among those who soak up hard "likker" by the quart in solitary confinement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1946 Album Poll To Be Distributed In Memorial Hall | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

...delicate sipper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 11/3/1942 | See Source »

Silver-haired, trim (about 175 lb., 5 ft. 10 in.), Andy Andrews looks the general. He golfs. He still likes to fly, does it well. He gambles (for enough to make it profitable fun). He is a discriminating Martini sipper (who says that he has yet to find a properly mixed Martini). He likes to take his friends on cocktail-picnic parties. In short, he has unusual social adaptability joined to his forthright military drive. With modesty and patience, he has survived a difficult, frustrated tour as commander of the Caribbean Air Forces under his predecessor in the top command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: General of the Caribbean | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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