Word: soaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Director General of Internal Revenue Alfredo Rioseco came home from his office at Santiago one night last week, ascended to his bedroom, took off his clothes, climbed into his bathtub, began to soak. . . . Beside the tub he had prudently laid out an automatic pistol-for times are strenuous in Chile (see below). Soon Señor Rioseco stood up and lathered himself. At that moment a soldier's gun butt crashed against the door. . . . Tough, the door held. The soldiers demanded of Señor Rioseco that he come out and submit to arrest. They shouted that...
...Marquis, colyumist-playwright (Old Soak): "Upon reading in Heywood Broun's column a letter, signed 'Don,' which told how many rejection slips the writer had received from editors, I wrote Heywood Broun a letter: -. . . I don't want anybody in the trade to think it is I who have had all these rejections, as it might hurt business. I have been in the writing business 25 years, and have sold every manuscript I ever produced...
...someone was asking about my recipes. . . . King Edward, now, was fond of your Virginia ham. I never baked it. I used to boil it slow, so it was almost steamed. You know the year of the ham, and you soak it a short time or a long one, depending on whether it's a good year or not. Then you tie it up in a cloth like a pudding. It's very good cooked in beer, too, just a little beer, and steamed. Then when it's done-no sauce-just pour some plain champagne...
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...Milwaukee, Drs. J. L. Yates and William Thalhimer made use of an old soak who had pernicious anemia. He was 65, had wretched teeth and would get drunk between blood transfusions. Altogether he received 52 litres (54.95 quarts) of blood. Some of it was fresh from the donors; some had been kept in cold storage; some was modified, some unmodified. The man soaked up anything the doctors thought good for him. When he died he was living on blood three-fourths of which was not his own and had undergone 113 transfusions. "No other patient has received...