Word: snigeroff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snigeroff's Nose. Drunkenness was regarded as an affliction rather than a misdemeanor. Nobody except Helen minded the endless consumption of a beverage brewed by "tossing sugar, flour and yeast-and sometimes a handful of rice or half-rotten fruit-into a dirty butter barrel" filled with water and allowing the mess to "make" for four days. "Don't be silly," said Thornie, dismissing Helen's alarm at the battle royal which invariably accompanied this wassail. "The boys are just having a good time. Just like kids. . .They really enjoy...
Bitterly Helen asked him who had enjoyed it when Nick Houdikoff bit off a piece of Cedar Snigeroff's nose. "Nick's wife did," answered Thornie triumphantly. "She put that piece of nose in a bottle of water, then showed it around to prove what a good fighter her husband...
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