Word: drank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correspondents eagerly drank in the General's somewhat premature but colorful remarks: [ bring to the world the truth about Fascismo! I was one of those accused of complicity in the Matteotti murder. I was later shamefully prevented from proving my innocence before the courts by being released through a general amnesty. I still declare that Premier Mussolini was responsible for what happened to Matteotti!" (TIME, June...
...childhood to Fabianism, anarchism, aestheticism, etc., etc., he affects Toryism to annoy his relatives but looks "red" to the bourgeoisie. A Catholic, he sustains his family's reputation for heterodoxy by believing the Pope fallible, divorce moral. His friend, Edward Garnett, once came where Ford, in William Morris garb, drank country mead from a bullock's horn. Garnett had a basket of manuscript and Ford assisted in selecting for publication Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad. Joseph Conrad, A Personal Remembrance and Some Do Not are his most recent books. At 16 he successfully published Brown Owl, illustrated...
...today. Insufferable people, dressmakers. Mlle. Lenglen had on an elaborate thing on Monday, which gives her the idea that she's getting ahead of me. . . . She asked me to have tea with her at the Imperial Club at Nice. Her idea of tea was a bottle of champagne. We drank each other's healths. Not a word about tennis. She showed me the centre court where she beat Molla Mallory in 1923. I had on lavender and blue...
Finally those who tottered to Les Halles (the public markets) for breakfast, drank a farewell toast in steaming peasant soup to M. Carpentier, "georgeous Orchid Man." He had announced his intention of sailing within the next few days to fulfill a cinema contract in California...
...Philadelphia in Civil War days, when he was going to a Quaker School. ("Teacher, what is a concubine?" "Thee stay in at recess, Sally Jane, and I'll tell thee.") He has told how he went into business to make money and made illustrations instead; how he drank coffee in the Venice of the '80s with William Dean Howells, Henry James, F. Marion Crawford; what he knows about Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Wells, Shaw, F. Hopkinson Smith ("whom I never could stand personally, or his writings either"). He has told why he was asked to write Whistler...