Word: tumbler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marie by slowly pouring a liqueur glass of absinthe over a lump of sugar into a tumbler of water...
...West 46th Street. Many a legend surrounds the place. One is that a policeman, passing late one night, spied a group of men hanging around the front door. Thinking them loafers, he ordered them to move along. To the constable's surprise, one member of the group, a tumbler, complied by doing a series of back flips all the way up the sidewalk to Broadway. Last week the N. V. A. clubhouse itself entered legend. A $150,000 deficit closed its doors...
...starched apron with the word MOTHER embroidered in red across its bib. On a side table was a huge brown bottle of warm castor oil, which she had blessed, and a bowl of quartered lemons, "taste-killers." To each one with the "miseries," a saint gave a full tumbler of the tepid oil and a "taste-killer." Away each would prance, blubbering oil and lemon juice, shouting "bress sweet Jesus." Occasionally Mother Catherine conducted "Epsom Salts Sundays...
...organized a circus parade of his contemporaries and in blue tights, playing a mandolin, led it down Maple Street in Evansville, Ind. riding on his stepfather's horse. Later he became assistant to the Great Doctor Dunbar, medical showman; still later he was a juggler, tumbler, musician, dancer, ventriloquist. After touring the U. S. in vaudeville acts he became a Manhattan headliner in the Vanities. In his house at Lake Hopatcong, N. J., resting on a silver standard, is a baseball which Babe Ruth has not autographed. On his private golf course is a green built in the shape...
...Breslau, Germany, Dr. C. Von L. Hasslinger admired and described the feats of a soldier. The soldier bit a large piece of glass out of a tumbler, chewed it up, swallowed it, washed it down with beer. Healthy, 29, he asserted that he had been eating glass for five years...