Word: drank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maudlinity came to be worth the incredible sum of $6,000 a week to them. They formed their own company. Famed were its members: Peter F. Daily, "the quickest-witted man who ever wore grease-paint", who drank a quart of champagne and a quart of whiskey every evening in his dressing room; golden Lillian Russell who "broke 1,000 hearts a night" when she sang Rosie, you are my Posie; David Warfield, William Collier, Fay Templeton, De Wolf Hopper, Bessie McCoy, Frankie Bailey, Sam Bernard...
...patriarch whom the world recognizes as an English gentleman. He led this stubborn ruler into a shady financial transaction to insure the future of a son of his illegitimate child. He contrived to have him caught. He served him with one ast relentless dinner in which he ate sweetbreads, drank brandy, defied the doctor, died...
...love him. And when he obtained pretty Ownie Tremlett for his wife it was only because she could not resist vulgar luxury in the face of frowsy widowhood in Brighton. They soon hated each other bitterly and a weakling mulatto baby was the core of their hate. Lee drank and died. Ownie reverted to a frowsy lodging house and dyed her hair...
...room from the house of a Newport merchant of the mid-18th Century. There stands the desk at which, glowering and growling, he read the Stamp Act; and having read, called for his boots, drank a stirrup-cup, rode off to New York to protest against...
...drank from them and under what circumstances? No one can ever know. Were the sparkling contents a forbidden delight furtively drunk by Puritan students of two centureis ago? Were they imbibed by Continental soldiers who were quartered in the hall during the Revolution? Did they serve to enliven some solemn Phi Bets Kappa dinner held there in the last century...