Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This sort of stuff is a tradition at Harvard-Yale football games that not even prohibition could spoil. Although the WTCU will tell you that nobody could get hold of liquor in those days, old alumni insist that Stadium swizzhing never reached its peak until the 1920's. The CRIMSON of 1927 reported that "today's Yale contest is the last of the season. From now on the boys will have to do their drinking indoors...
...Farm women do not have to be told how to can food. Home economics programs must deal in such subtleties as whether blanching peas for ten seconds longer will spoil them for freezing...
...electoral votes. This was grossly exaggerated and he knew it. By the best expert reckoning, he would not get North Carolina, which was cool to all the candidates and coolest to a third-party candidate. He would not get Arkansas, although he might have enough strength there to spoil an outside chance for Dewey. He would not win Florida, Kentucky or Virginia, but he might get just enough there to give those states to Dewey. He was a fair bet to win Georgia and Louisiana, a very good bet to win Alabama, and a sure thing in his own state...
...please leave us to our own interpretation of the works of Al Capp [TIME, Sept. 13]- undoubtedly the most brilliant satirist of our era. His genius defies interpretation . . . Like fine music, Capp's cartoons mean many things to many people. Don't spoil...
Nostalgia for ancient grandeur welled up last week in Greece. It was too bad that the Red guerrillas were still around to spoil things, like mosquitoes at a garden party...