Word: sot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voter, taxpayer and lifelong resident of Washington state. I voted for assistance to the aged and blind people in this state. I did not do so "with something of the attitude of a nightclub sot," as you say. I am not a recipient of old-age assistance. You are a damn liar...
...Reader Ross either needs new reading glasses or has an itchy typewriter. What TIME said was: "The average citizen in California, Oregon and Washington voted for pensions with something of the attitude of a nightclub sot listening to Mother Machree-it was hard to be critical because the words were...
...average citizen in California, Oregon and Washington voted for pensions with something of the attitude of a nightclub sot listening to Mother Machree-it was hard to be critical because the words were so sad. Furthermore many of the old folks had a legitimate case. But this summer thousands of taxpayers were recalling their own generosity with purse-clutching alarm. The Pacific Coast had become a minor-league welfare state of its own, and new pension and welfare plans seemed to be pushing the states toward the brink of bankruptcy...
...territory. It requires a regional expert's knowledge of many fields : mining, livestock and oil, for instance, as well as local state politics. The Denver bureau's growing news file includes such stories as the Goethe Festival at Aspen, Colo. (TIME, July 11), the cow that Sot stuck in the silo (TIME, March...
This doesn't mean that you can get away without any harmful effects drinking one quart a day. A Washington physician says that, on a quart a day, the average person would be a drunken sot; but at least one quart a day won't kill you, science says...