Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pick; two fights. Duels were the custom of the country, and the hour set for the duels is early the next morning. Meanwhile there is a country dance. Jackson falls in love with the local belle argues state rights, the purpose of the Constitution, and the excise tax on whiskey, and forces the duels before their time. One man he kills; the other is so drunk that Jackson fires in harmless disdain over his head. The last act he spends in the girl's cabin, in love making for a time, then in explaining that he is a troublemaking fool...
...filling prescriptions. This year's book adds 40 new drugs and preparations and takes out 192. Some additions: aspirin, salvarsan, carbon tetrachlorid used for hookworm, some local anesthetics and a surgical solution of chlorinated soda, known as the Carrell-Dakin solution that received notoriety during the war. Whiskey and brandy, taken out of the last Pharmacopoeia, are put back in this...
...Klondike. ... A blizzard. A straggling company of ragged monte-banks passing through a wintry defile; Chilkoot Pass. Chaplin left behind in the dash for gold, blown to the door of a lonely cabin. Does the hearty Westerner within open his door, warm the tattered stranger with a glass of whiskey? No; he snarls through a crack in the window; Chilly Chaplin reels off in the storm...
...Scottish custom?the hole-in-one man gives his caddy a bottle of whiskey...
...prosecution asked whether he had ever tasted rye whiskey, but the defense objected to the question. Finally, it was agreed that he should smell the bottle. He said that in his opinion it was whiskey, but declined to swear that it was. Since there was no proof that the bottles contained whiskey, the court acquitted Miss Clancy in less than ten minutes...