Word: tumbler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pass out to their customers. Tootled shrilly by Argentine Ambassador Oscar Tascherest in the Imperial's supper club, it profoundly irritated the girl companion of a young British ex-officer named John Edwards. The Briton suggested that the Argentine desist. When Tascherest ignored the suggestion, Edwards took a tumbler of water and dropped a tiny trickle on the ambassador's head "to cool him off a bit." Tascherest retaliated by hurling a highball, with glass, at Edwards. "I thought then," explained Edwards later, "that he just wanted to play, so I got a pitcher of water, said...
...Shot Him." Hysterically, Ditty pleaded with Dr. Smith not to tell her father. Paight was still under the anesthetic, and Ditty and her mother went home. Friends later recalled Ditty's strange behavior. She seemed frigidly calm, then unexpectedly snatched up a tumbler and smashed it against a wall. Her later actions were pieced together by witnesses in court last week...