Word: sips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...families, accidents will happen. In Nagyrev village, one Mrs. Fazekas was much in demand as a "wise woman'' or midwife because of the frequency with which unwanted babies were born dead under her ministrations. Unfortunately mothers often died as well. One day Mrs. Fazekas saw a fly sip from a saucer in which was a sheet of arsenical flypaper, drop dead. She saw a chicken eat the fly and drop dead in turn. Mrs. Fazekas pondered these interesting phenomena, then ordered great quantities of flypaper from neighboring villages...
...fear, M. le President,"* smiled Catholic Foch, continuing to sip his coffee, "that you do not know of all my family connections. I have a brother who is a Jesuit...
...this not an ironic comment on Prohibition? If the Secretary of State is allowed to sip, however sparingly, may we not expect a reasonable immunity from the law if we also sip? Should not Congress issue a list of those who may sip and those who will be arrested if they are caught sipping? Then you would not be troubled with letters from curious people like myself...
Among the places in the U. S. where one can sip sparingly and legally are the various embassies in Washington, D. C. Also, possessors of sips bought before Prohibition, or prescribed by a doctor since, may sip legally...
...founder of Britannia [sip], I said what I thought, without fear or favor. Evidently I am against lots of people [sip], for I believe in everything British! That was what Britannia stood for while I held her helm...