Word: drank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lexington, Ky., one pint of nitroglycerin stood at the mouth of an oil shaft. A dog drank it. Workmen ran for their lives. Stimulated by his draft, the loaded cur pursued a rabbit. The rabbit leaped down a bank. Jumping after it, the dog exploded...
...feeling of great Admiral Togo, now 78, who lay at that moment ill-and perhaps dying- in the modest house which he occupies in a suburb of Tokyo. The fleet has been built up by men like Admiral Togo, samurai ("military nobles") who went to England in their youth, drank at the authentic font of naval lore, and came home to instruct and inspire their countrymen. Japan requires a navy now as never before. The European nations, emerging from their mutual war preoccupation, will soon begin again to interpenetrate the Orient in earnest. Beside the problems of defense, Japan...
...even a shoe, which Mr. Carson picked up and hurled, could revive the argument. Transported with drunken rage, Philosopher Carson sprang at the sleeper, raining blows with the shoe upon the lolling head. Prof. Buermeyer slid from his chair to the floor. Mr. Carson, panting, mixed and drank another tumbler of alcohol and water, glared blearily at the body, then fell asleep himself. Hours later he awoke and, without looking to see how his friend fared, staggered home for more sleep...
...Tokyo, one Giichi Kitazawa, confectioner, sat brooding; glowered across the table at his sweetheart. Disappointed in love, he swallowed large quantities of eggs, curry, rice; drank heartily of sake-whisky; fell unconscious, died...
...first attempt I made, I nearly went to sleep in the water. Some one had pue drugs, in the beef tea I drank before starting. My trainer proved this beyond any doubt. Well, before my second attempt, all my food was prepared by my sister. I was more confident than ever of making the swim, though no one else thought I would...