Word: messing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...only a few are left, mostly in the South. These are fond of pointing out that Benjamin Franklin was the champion U. S. snuffer. He startled European courts by the care he used in carrying the right colored box for every occasion. In Canada, the Royal Highlanders at mess pass around a ramshorn filled with dry snuff, of which every member and guest must partake. Damp snuff is highly-ground tobacco mixed with a little salt and, later, oil of wintergreen, rose, or a similar flavor. The advantage of chewing snuff over chewing tobacco is that snuff does not form...
...doors, even the Emperor. Thus the wrathful monarch was watching when his Black Eagle turned into a Black Crow, lost control of his ship at an altitude of 100 ft., crashed in a mass of tangled wreckage. "Spite work!" cried Colonel Julian emerging uninjured from the mess. "That Frenchman who commanded the Abyssinian Air Force before I took command tampered with my ship. Spite work...
...what a catch!" grinned impeccably clad Edward. "A fine mess we'd be in, gentlemen, if we fell into that...
Here is what one station house looked like after detectives had been "shellacking" some suspected Italian kidnappers: "An inch of blood covered the floors, walls and desks in the different rooms. Broken blackjacks, rubber hose and the parts of four broken chairs were scattered in the mess. The men ruined their clothes and looked more like workmen employed in an abattoir than detectives." Third-degree methods, says Lavine, are sometimes applied to women. "He [the detective] merely shows what a big, strong guy he is by starting to lift her from the ground by her hair. That usually makes...
...check on his proclivities to let daily assignments slide before Midyears, or rather, before the next set of hours in December. For the upperclassman, taking four courses, immersed in his tutorial work and, in his Senior year, preparing for Divisionals, even perhaps, laying plans for his thesis, the whole mess of irritating formal quizzes is an insult to his supposed maturity and, what is considerably more important, an absolute injury to constant intelligent study...