Word: soda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sunny winter day (Feb. 7, 1937) that President Roosevelt delightedly stunned the country with his Supreme Court Plan, one Senator withdrew from the ranks of his huffing & puffing colleagues, sought out a secluded leather chair, thoughtfully drank a Scotch-&-soda which he later described as "a foot high...
...Bakersfield, Calif., Teacher Hildegarde Case set out to prove to her pupils that plain foods are best, even for rats. To one rat she fed milk, whole wheat grains; to another, soda pop, salt pork, coffee. The first rat grew plump and healthy; the second even plumper. Suspecting a jokester, Teacher Case hid one night to waylay him. No one appeared, but in the morning she found eight baby rats in their soda-popped, pork-fed mother's cage...
Last week Joe College was busy gulping goldfish. He garnished it with salt, with mayonnaise or with ketchup, and he chased it with milk, orange juice or soda pop, but one routine did not vary. Each goldfish was gulped alive...
Three policemen and 100 cheering students watched the next champion, M. I. T.'s six-foot-four Albert E. Hayes Jr., wash down 42 fish with four bottles of chocolate soda. He stopped, explained Freshman Hayes, because '42 were his class numerals. Said he: "You lay the goldfish well back on the tongue, let it wiggle forward till it hits the top of the throat, then give one big gulp. Same effect as swallowing a raw oyster...
Designed and furnished by Ginger and her mother, the Rogers house is equipped with standard Hollywood conveniences of tennis court, bird's-eye view, projection room, outdoor bath, and such eccentric Hollywood conveniences as a built-in soda fountain. Ginger enjoys making herself chocolate sodas behind the fountain, but goes around to sit properly in front of the counter to drink them. In her studio, she makes portrait sketches and sculptures...