Word: sodaed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small boy whose father has recently died becomes the man of the family by getting a job behind a soda-fountain, shows his mother that he, and no stepfather, will fill his father's shoes...
Being of the class of 1924 of the Phillips Exeter Academy, I can vouch for TIME and "lead shots," for while at the Academy I had many a weighty "lead shot" at the soda fountains of Exeter. As far as I remember they are made up of one-quarter glass malted milk, one-quarter glass sweet chocolate syrup, 1 scoop chocolate ice cream, with the remainder of the glass filled with heaviest of cream and the whole mixed to the consistency of marshmallow paste. Price...
What, if you please, is the drink commonly termed "the lead shot"? In my rather brief sojourn of two years here, I have yet to drink this "fearful mixture of the sweetest and heaviest syrups of the soda fountain." Yet I frequent the soda fountains of Exeter with much regularity. But, being rather sceptical by nature and decidedly curious and feeling that my reputation as a soda fountain connoisseur was at stake, I made rather extensive inquiries, but regret to say that my search was unrewarded, for every storekeeper and proprietor in Exeter answered my demand for Exeter...
...School has its drink (the 'lead shot': a fearful mixture of the sweetest and heaviest syrups of the soda fountain)." I am sorry to say that this drink seems to have gone the way of all popular drinks: here today and gone tomorrow. I have been in Exeter for several years, and I have as yet to meet such a drink, though I have met many fearful ones. For example: Welch grape juice in a milk shake, thus making their advertised "Purple...
...drugstore at Dayton. Tenn. There he met his friend George W. Rappelyea, chemist and coal man. Outside a rickety old Ford rattled down the dusty main street of the village (pop. 1705). The Cumberland hills beyond drew a green circle around Dayton's early summer stagnation. Perched on soda fountain stools, Rappelyea and Scopes discussed the State's month-old law against teaching evolution. They both believed in the theory, loudly agreed the new statute was ''damn nonsense." Lounging oldsters pricked up their ears when Teacher Scopes declared he was still using a biology text-book...