Word: sweetish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...herb stores for a smoking mixture (coltsfoot and clover leaf, scented with lavender or rose leaf) commonly used by sufferers from asthma or catarrh. Said London's deluxe tobacconist, Alfred Dunhill: "No self-respecting smoker would smoke a herbal mixture." But thousands of Britons were mixing the sweetish stuff with their pipe tobacco; it cost only fourpence an ounce, about one-tenth of the price of tobacco...
...Anesthetist of Mattoon, Ill. (pop. 17,500) is a tall, thin man who wears a black skullcap, and carries an instrument not unlike a Flit gun. He moves through the night as nimbly and secretly as a cat, squirting a sweetish gas through bedroom windows. His victims cough, awaken with burning throats, and find themselves successively afflicted with: 1) nausea, 2) a temporary paralysis, and 3) a desire to describe their experiences in minutest detail. This latter result often enables them to overcome their symptoms with startling dispatch...
...Started With Eve (Universal) will mark one more milestone for devotees of dimply Deanna Durbin. Her fans have followed Universal's sweetish nightingale through adolescence (her first date, first kiss, etc.). Now 19, and still growing strong, pretty Deanna now intones her alleluias to womanhood (she was married last spring...
...British had on hand a two-and-a-half-year supply of U. S. tobacco, and being out of the market this year didn't mean they would stay out next; 3) during World War I, when Turkey was a German ally, Britons weaned themselves from sweetish Turkish, got the grown-up Virginia habit...