Word: spigots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name any name. The diversion of 350,000 gallons of pure grain alcohol from Philadelphia throughout the land was described as the Master Mind's greatest recent coup. In addition to being the upkeeper of its own 13,000 saloons and speakeasies, Philadelphia appeared as a spigot from which alcohol poured out to all parts of the country with a source of supply dwarfing even Chicago...
...Revival. Altogether charming was the performance of Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel. Queen Mario was Gretel, a wee child with pigtails stiff as taffy sticks. Editha Fleisher was Hansel, just ragged and happy. There was a real witch with matted gray hair and a nose like a spigot who rode on her broomstick way into the sky and ate little children. There was a gingerbread house and a red-hot oven where plop ended the witch pushed by wee Gretel just too stupid to get in herself. "Hocus pocus. . . ." Children loved it. So did grown-ups who quite forgot...
...These protected interests [sugar]," said the candidate at Peoria, "get five dollars for every dollar that goes into the Federal Treasury. . . , The President saves at the spigot and wastes at the bunghole . . . Cheese-paring policy...
...long-awaited announcement of the Advocate's dry competition was made yesterday, proclaiming Miss Katherine Welling of New York the winner, with "Spigot-Bigot" the prize word...
Miss Katherine Greene Welling of New York City contributed the prize word "Spigot-Bigot" to the Advocate "Dry" Contest and, as a result, receives the $26 prize and the degree of "Summa cum Laude...