Word: sot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Equivalent to a U. S. wife's remarking, "I gave him to the village sot...
...records in the quarter mile and in the 880-yard relay race featured the meet last spring, and the pace of 51 seconds for the quarter sot by Smith of Brookline High and the time 1 minute 35 seconds for the half made by the Dorchester team, show that the standards set by the quality of last years competition are high. A to 2-5 second run in the 100 made by Trull of Lowell and a broad jump 20 feet 7 inches by Cregas of Brockton were also outstanding performances in last year's meet
...Story is told by a small boy whose name is the book's* title. Because his father is a sot, and he thinks people suspect him of knowing a lot about how Mitch Miller (the subject of a novel Author Masters published in 1920) got killed, Kit O'Brien leaves Petersburg, 111., with two of his friends. Hungry, they steal apple pie. His friends get caught, but Kit proceeds, Huck Finn fashion, down the Illinois River into the Mississippi. There on a houseboat he finds Miss Siddons, an impoverished ac tress with a disfigured face, living with a madman. When...
Miss Mary Cherry, a perpetual guest, is Uncle George's prize opponent in argument. She quotes Scripture in her bass voice with venomous effect; nags him for a sot and schemes against him about his daughter's marriage. Parson Bates, a hard-drinking, ruddy giant who mispronounces "sacrilegious," is a third party to their wrangles...
...Never Drunk." "Liquor of all kinds he loved and manufactured, imported, gave away and consumed in vast quantities. Where Charles Lamb won a bad name as a little sot because anything over a thimbleful went to his head, Washington was always drinking but never drunk...