Word: spigot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regrets were felt over the loss of the rickety gray building with the low ceiling and the one cold water spigot that had previously passed for a gymnasium. "Chemical laboratory bottles upstairs juggled dangerously when anything more violent than Swedish movements was done," a reminiscence in the 1900 Yearbook reads. One member of the class of 1897 donated a large tin tub from home for the girls to bathe in after exercising...
...will certainly mellow tomorrow night--along with the rest of Cambridge--and when local imbibers find that the ice is melting and the spirits weakening, they may well turn to a new invention of Howard H. Hopson '46, which replaces the broken bottle cork with a glorified spigot...
...nearing 70, Author Sinclair can still reel off his special Lanny-brand of history and hokum at comic-strip clip. "All I have to do is turn the spigot," he once explained, "and the water flows." And, though critics and historians may not like him, Lanny has a public. In Europe-and in Russia (where Sinclair is considered a major U.S. literary figure, along with William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell) the Lanny Budd volumes are becoming almost as well known as Author Sinclair's The Jungle or The Brass Check. Several of the Lanny series have already been published...
...beer spigot foamed. Another citizen spoke: "It's a phony. Leo's just putting on a big act, but then, ya can't tell . . . maybe he's in love." Like a breath of spring, a faint note of optimism crept in; somebody mentioned that old Hughie Casey had concocted a new and very secret pitch. "Gonna win twenty games, he says." But it was just a breath and it died on the next remark: "What ya been smokin', bud, mario-wanna...
...Brains." Fred's durability as a comedian has not depended solely on the obvious externals of slapstick. His voice, to be sure, sounds as if it might be filing his teeth down as it issues from his spigot mouth. And his face ("the sharpest knife," says Ludwig Bemelmans, "I have ever seen") is rather like a very large red pear that the ants have been at. Fred Allen has other gifts as well. John Steinbeck considers him "unquestionably the best humorist of our time ... a brilliant critic of manners and morals." Jack Benny, his private friend and public enemy...