Word: tumblers
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...establishment was maintained on very old fashioned lines. Ugly blue-glass finger bowls, with a blue-glass tumbler inside them containing the necessary mixture, were placed in front of each guest and at the end of each meal, conscientiously and noisily used. After this revolting gargling, the party entered the drawing room and, before coffee was served, all the relations gave each other a resounding kiss, at the same time saying, "Mahlzeit," meaning "good digestion...
...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...
...team of mules. Other exhumations followed until 22 arsenicated corpses were discovered. Only then did a pair of Hungarian gendarmes, black cock feathers in their bowler hats, march down the main street of Nagyrev to arrest the terrible Mrs. Fazekas. She saw them coming, instantly drained a stiff tumbler of her potent essence of flypaper and died...
...fire, and while blazing mix both ingredients by pouring them four or five times from one mug to the other. If well done this will have the appearance of a continuous stream of liquid fire. Sweeten with one teaspoonful of pulverized white sugar, and serve in a small bar tumbler, with a piece of lemon peel. ... A beholder gazing for the first time upon an experienced artist compounding this beverage, would naturally come to the conclusion that it was a nectar for Pluto rather than Bacchus. The novice in mixing this beverage should be careful not to scald himself...
...only one making a sacrifice. I am giving up the man I love to marry you because you are responsible for my present condition.' ... A man named Hilton it was. ... It wasn't lasting, however, because she later became violently in love with a boy named Ernie Tumbler. . . . Now and then she would taunt me, 'I don't get a kick out of being married to you.' . . . And then-I suppose it was in an effort to justify her conduct with Tumbler-she started telling her friends I was a degenerate...