Word: snorter
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...Short Snorter Service...
Then Vanderkloot asked: "Are you a short-snorter, sir?" The rules of that august fraternity provide that if a short-snorter is unable to produce his card immediately, he must give a dollar bill to all short-snorters present. Leland Stowe's Moscow interview with the two flyers revealed that Churchill then & there made up a new rule-that he had five minutes to produce his card. He distressed Sawyers by pawing through his luggage, finally found the dollar bill inscribed with the term "short-snorter" and the date of his induction into the fraternity of transocean flyers...
...succeed the late Loren Palmer who went to the Butterick Publishing Co., and later to Liberty, was given practically a free hand. Most important, he was allowed to spend freely to get and hold good authors. He set about to speed up the magazine, insisting on more and snorter stories in each issue, buying by the story, not by the word. He originated the "short short-story," complete on one page, first of which was written by Octavus Roy Cohen. Four-color illustrations were used in Collier's for the first time by any weekly. Collier's began to recapture...
...fact that alcohol is less a stimulant than a releaser of the inhibitions was bemoaned last week before the Royal Commission on Licensing by that grand old Victorian snorter, Viscount D'Abernon of Stoke D'Abernon...
Burning Daylight. Milton Sills is a red-hot rip-snorter of Alaska-so hot that he calls himself Burning Daylight. He finds gold, all right. He takes it to San Francisco, where he blunders into polite society. The slick city men hornswoggle him when he plays the stock market. But, finally, by virile tactics, he gets even with them and marches out of their office with a big black bag containing $3,000,000. Then dat ole debbil Burning Daylight says to his sweetheart (Mrs. Milton Sills, the onetime Doris Kenyon): "Let's go back to Alaska." And, three...