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Needless to say, this is an allegory for Steinbrenner's New York Yankees, once the proudest team in baseball, now merely the highest paid. Bringing back that "reformed" fist baller and dehydrated bibber Billy Martin for a fourth term as mismanager, Steinbrenner has taxed the credibility of even the New York Post. Sometimes it seems that this former anonymous shipbuilder from Cleveland owns more than 37 1/2% of the Manhattan tabloids. He hovers over the + city like the Hindenburg. In quivering type befitting a disaster, his name is a standard headline: GEORGE EXPLODES. NO SURVIVORS...
...Vietnam war criminals; self-righteously oppose abortaion and open the door to a flood of the unwanted to fill prisons and welfare folls; legally and otherwise harass homosexuals and lesbians who really are harming no one? What would Jesus do? His enemies said he was a wine-bibber, glutton, a friend to prostitutes and tax collectors! Henry Ratliff
...tankard by Cornelius Kierstede with five pegs inside the body in line with the handle; as the tankard was passed around, each bibber drank to his peg but not a drop below...
Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) is one of the century's more vividly forgotten men of letters. His name survives only as a journalistic legend and on the title pages of a few perennially popular books (The Bar Sinister, Van Bibber and Others) read mostly now by children. But 50 years ago, as this workmanlike biography recalls, R.H.D. was one of the most famous writers in America-a world-prowling literary lion who became the most flamboyantly successful reporter of his era, created the archetype of the war correspondent, wrote four hit plays (The Dictator, Ransom's Folly...
...have had an Essene at his lustrations for days, he urged people to love their enemies while the Essenes carefully nurtured their hatred for the children of darkness, and instead of their rigid asceticism he "came eating and drinking," letting those who would call him "gluttonous and a wine-bibber...