Word: drank
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rises directly from the lake. Entering, we passed through the long hall, and were shown to our dressing room from which we went to the reception, held in the corridor on the second floor. The corridors were filled with members of the Faculty, juniors, and their guests. We first drank tea with the kind friend who invited us, and we were then taken through the upper part of the building. We passed up the stairs, through the halls. Elegant pictures adorned the walls, statuary and tropical plants were frequently seen, and, indeed, everything was beautiful...
...becomes more appreciative of the superiority of French wines manufactured especially for the American market. Intemperance stands pre-eminent among the evils known to civilized nations, and is, moreover, the foundation of a great part of the other evils. In Europe, where formerly nobody got drunk because everybody drank, the cry is arising in almost every country, both on account of drunkenness, and on account of the adulteration of liquors France herself has become frightened and from an analysis of 1700 samples of what was sold as pure liquor, only 60 were found unadulterated...
...wicked reporter of a New York daily says of the singing of the college glee club at the recent Princeton banquet in New York: "The latter organization rendered a number of college songs with great spirit, and was applauded and cheered to the echo by the happy alumni, who drank wine under the eyes of their former president with much enthusiasm...
...club then drank several informal toasts, after which singing and storytelling were indulged in until the party broke up after a most enjoyable meeting...
...each ending, of course, in disastrous collapse. The Birds were constantly engaged in some comical tricks, one of them going so far so to peck the long hair of the violoncellist in the orchestra, to the great amusement of the audience and the embarrassment of the worthy man. Herakles drank off the contents of the saucepan in which Peithetairos was cooking, when the latter's back was turned; and Prometheus, hiding Zeus under the sunshade, introduced as much comic "business" as an actor in a screaming farce. These things, and the brilliancy of the spectacle, and the delightful music...