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Word: swigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ashes. 'Jiminy it must be late!' I thunk, and run into the East Coatroom for my Bromo Seltzer. It was gone and they were doing big bottles around the empty apples. So I drank something else which tasted fine so when the bottle came round again I took another swig. I felt fine then but there was so much elbow room there was nothing to lean on, so I attacked a surprise pull and leaned on the floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

...suitcase, easel and the iron-tipped cane that he bitterly called "my buttonhook," 'Ennry would frequently move into a brothel, stay there several months, painting most of the time. In the mid-90s 'Ennry began to drink seriously. A great artist but no gourmet, he liked to swig a mixture of Scotch whiskey, rum, absinthe and cheap brandy. Paris dandies of his day frequently carried sword canes; the Vicomte de Toulouse-Lautrec's cane held liquor. In 1899 he was confined in a sanatorium as an alcoholic, was led out in the company of a guard. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ennry | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...squirt of insecticide. Although the Park Department claimed the spray was an oil mixture harmless to humans, Mrs. Owens alleged that it burned her throat. Last week in court, Assistant Corporation Counsel Aaron J. Arnold lifted a pint bottle of the insecticide to his lips, downed a lusty swig, won the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Swiggers | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

Penalties were frequent, and at one time Carr, of Harvard, Swig, of Brown, and Hicks, of Harvard, were in the box at the same time, but there was no further scoring and the game ended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CRUSHES BRUIN TEAM 7-1 ON PROVIDENCE RINK | 1/13/1937 | See Source »

...Norman Gillmor Long, 32, climbed to the cab on the girder, clung precariously to a ladder. Asked John McCoy: "Is my arm gone, Doc?" Dr. Long: "We'll see. Just take it easy." The doctor gave the crane operator a swig of whiskey, dulled him further with a hypodermic of morphine. Then operating with only his left hand through a hole cut in the side of the cab and working with his surgeon's lancet and a machinist's hacksaw, Dr. Long amputated John McCoy's right arm at the shoulder. Thereupon firemen hauled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mishaps in Massachusetts | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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