Word: drank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elmira, N. Y., Edith M. Stewart, Elmira College senior, drank poison; friends said because she feared suspension for having attended a dance at nearby Cornell University without permission...
...Grover Cleveland drank. Calvin Coolidge does not. In many another way the two-term Democrat and the two-term Republican differ. Cleveland is the first President whom Calvin Coolidge can remember. A word unites them. It is perhaps Calvin Coolidge's favorite: "character." He keynoted it in a recent speech (Armistice Day). He has used it in nearly every speech. Last week, regretting his inability to make a speech on the 90th anniversary of Grover Cleveland's birth, he used it: "Character . . . stability . . . efficiency...
...Daniel Webster was sent to the Senate from Massachusetts until he died. He was loose, drank habitually to excess, did not pay his debts, but Massachusetts had a right to send him. And one could multiply such instances a hundredfold...
...Arbor, Mich., on Jan. 27, Henry R. Kasson, 22, junior in the University of Michigan, who had lately suffered concussion of the brain in a motor smash, wrote out a check and a letter (explaining nothing) for his roommate, opened his copy of Dante's Inferno, drank acid and died...
Surgeon Mayo's lecture, finally delivered, was pertinent with the week's news. There had died Brewer George Ehret, 92, whom German bands serenaded as they drank his beer free on his birthdays; Soldier John McCausland, 90, one of the last two Confederate Army generals; Historian James Ford Rhodes, 78; Dr. Edward Wyllys Andrews, 70, an organizer of the American College of Surgeons...