Word: drank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that oil and water will not mix-neither will Monarchists and Communists. That fact was amply brought out in the Reichstag on its opening day. The first scene was one of simple, solemn sensation: General Erich von Ludendorff held court, his admirers standing stiffly at attention before him. He drank a glass of beer, shook hands formally with each Monarchy man who was presented to him. Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz tripped timorously into the Reichstag. Photographers tried to "snap" him as he went, but in his well-known genial manner, he dispersed them with a few deft fencing movements...
...great disappointment to the Bolshecrats, who had intended to spend $500,000 for the erection of a Marx Monument in Red Square, Moscow. On dit in Paris that Manuel, onetime King of Portugal, and the rotund ex-Shah of Persia went to Zelli's famed Montmartre cabaret, drank champagne, talked to the pretty girls. Butted in a sheik-like youth, asked permission to sit down. The monarchs assented graciously, the three talked much and at the time of parting said Manuel: "I am the King of Portugal." "I," said the Shah, "am the Shah of Persia." "Good night, gentlemen...
...volunteer to go without a drink. There was nothing much the matter, as far as I ever heard, about the quality or healthful properties of the tea on King George's ships in 1775, but for the principle of the thing a man was socially ostrcized if he drank it. There is a principle of the thing today that ought soon to take its place so that such a socially influential body as the Associated Harvard Clubs will at least frown upon it. Yours very truly H. H. NOYES...
...died at last from forty-seven Tumblers of punch he drank one even: (O'er-thrown by punch, unharmed...
...race for the office. Delegations of Germans likewise. Said the Irish: "Give us no foreigners, but an Irishman!" The Pope chose Mundelein. To Chicago he went His position was "difficult." At a welcoming banquet 150 prominent citizens were poisoned by the soup. At the next banquet, the new Archbishop drank the soup first. And ever since he has grown, quietly, in the respect of a strident community. No archdiocese is more efficiently run. Its head has never committed a public blunder. The youngest to graduate, the youngest to become Bishop, one of the youngest to become Archbishop, George Mundelein will...