barm

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Nearly every important American writer�Nabokov, Mailer Barm, Bellow, Malamud, Donleavy, Roth, Friedman, Burroughs, Heller, Pynchon, Willingham�works from an assumption that society is at best malevolent and stupid, at worst wholly lunatic.

From Time Magazine Archive

James White, a publican who kept the "Pail of Barm" at Bedminster, made a close second in his activity and success.

From The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by Hutchinson, J. R. (John Robert)

Barm, b�rm, n. froth of beer or other fermenting liquor, used as leaven: yeast.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

If a pottle of Barm do not make it work enough to your mind, you may put in a little more.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne

Then Tun it up, and put Barm to it, that it may ferment well.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne