Word: bendere
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Sitting in the boardinghouse with his landlady, Mrs. Myrtle Williams, last week, old John L. Black seemed only intermittently aware of his sudden affluence. "Jeez, nineteen thousand dollars!" he muttered. "Hear that, Myrtle? Now we can go on a hell of a bender...
Nearly everybody in the U.S. harbors organisms of trench mouth, may develop the disease if his resistance gets too low from poor nutrition or a bender. Then a bacillus and a spirochete (and sometimes other mouth germs) work together to produce tender, bleeding gums (medical name: Vincent's stomatitis) or throat and tonsil infections (medical name: Vincent's angina). Mouthwashing with hydrogen peroxide is one of the commonest treatments. But treatment usually goes on & on in serious cases...
...swiftly settled a case arising under its order freezing workers in essential war jobs. Back to her war job in Elizabeth, NJ. went Miss Vernet Witham, 19, who had quit sewing shirts for soldiers and sailors to take up more congenial work in a nearby factory as a pretzel bender...
Bigheaded Richard Allen Knight, disbarred, divorced, disgruntled onetime lawyer and master of legal billingsgate, went on a well-publicized bender in Manhattan. (He once posed for photographers standing on his head outside the Metropolitan Opera House-TIME, Dec. 11, 1939.) On plushy upper Fifth Avenue, he followed up a street-corner conga by soundly bussing a couple of female passersby, then plunged into the Plaza Art Auction Galleries, where he encountered a statuesque beauty (an armless Venus) and struck up a conversation with her. Repairing briefly to the Sherry-Netherland bar, he emerged, gathered another crowd by bawling the headlines...
...Bender also defeated Howie Ezell, 6-2, 6-3. Ted Cohn vanquished Princeton's Bellows by 6-3, 6-3. In the doubles Hyde and Sorlien defeated Moore and Walker by 2-6, 6-3, 9-7; Chamberlain and Canada defeated Will Nichol and Orme Wilson, 6-4, 6-0; and Buttenheim and Conze defeated Burton and Cohn...