Word: sips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge University crew at their training quarters, Richmond-on-the-Thames, England (TIME, March 14), the president of the rival Oxford eight, also in training, made a statement in behalf of his men. They would drink dark beer during the training period as a matter of course; would sip port on alternate nights; once a week indulge in champagne...
...Swedes as valiant drinkers is due in considerable measure to the Swedish custom of drinking "healths" or "toasts" incessantly at even completely informal meals. Swedish, and indeed Scandinavian etiquette demands that when three or more people are at table no one of them shall drink so much as a sip of beer, wine or spirits except in pledging a toast. At a formal Swedish dinner the host rises, catches the eye of a guest who also rises, cries "Your health!" and they drink. The host must repeat this ritual at least once with every guest, and each guest must reply...
Spain. "Oh, please don't set the piano on fire!" is heard now in every dance or recreation hall where Spaniards gather to drink hot milk and coffee, to sip gravely a green or golden chartreuse, to listen while supple dancers click their castanets, or to glide through sinuous tangos...
...harassed constable phoned that one Herr Horoz, schoolmaster, had begun what he announced as a "six-day speech" in the famed Lustgarten; was pausing only occasionally for a sip of liquid nourishment...
...brewer brewing a brew, a baker baking a cake, a woman having a gown made, a huntsman buying a horn-all these and many another involved in an operation where it is the result that counts, perform one act in common. They sip the brew, taste the batter, try on the gown, wind the horn. So, thought Chicago's school superintendent, William McAndrew, should those supporting public education be permitted to ladle out a sample of the educational pot and try it to see if the contents have taste, body, zest, quality. Last week he caused 40 eighth-grade...