Word: tumbler
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...Boat. That operator was recently hunched over a tumbler of bourbon in Seattle's exclusive, leather-lined Rainier Club. In his Sunday best, he looked very uncomfortable. He became more uncomfortable when told that the club's whiskey deliveries were smaller than those of some newer clubs. "Goddamn it," he roared, "I go and talk to Mon [Governor Monrad
...Fragmentary Evidence. In Washington, Charles Bullock, charged with breaking a store window, contended that glass shards found in his hatband were crumbs from a meal, nibbled a water tumbler to prove...
Apparatus events are the backbone of gymnastics. But far more exciting to galleries are the tumbling events. For the sheer fun of it, contestants perform the same stunts that once kept Japanese tumblers in big-time vaudeville. The tumbler who brought down the house last week was a 15-year-old schoolgirl, dimpled, curly-headed Bonnie Nebelong. Into her minute-and-a-half performance, she packed so many spine-tingling contortions and body twists that the judges had eyes for no one else...
...farewell. In Tokyo the taxis are takuski and the chauffeurs are doraibu. A knife is knaifu, butter is bata, scrambled eggs are sakurambu eggu, beefsteak is beefu teki, chocolate is chokoretto, a mutton chop is maton choppu, soup is soppu, a salad is sarado, celery is serari, a tumbler is koppu (cup). To the moga (modern girl) it is all a pain in the nekku...
...debut, the camera tells the story by climbing high up among the flies to find two stagehands - one with his hand pinching his nose in disgust. Always the camera seems to be giving the narrative a special meaning where it will help most: picturing a small bottle beside a tumbler when Susan Kane is lying drugged with an overdose of sedatives, exploring the love nest and the family breakfast table like a pair of prying eyes and ears...