Word: drank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geisenfeld, Bavaria, Franz Dietrich, "champion sausage eater of Ger-many," ate 14 one-pound sausages, drank 10 large glasses of beer in two hours...
...Anonymous ? Covici-McGee ($2.00). Joan Burroughs wanted to teach, really teach. She got a job at the University of Chicago. And that, according to her, is the last thing she should have done to satisfy her pedagogic yearnings. All the professors, she found, were sexually predatory. Their wives drank cocktails, were migratory almost every night. The authorities demanded that the faculty?presumably in its soberer moments?confine itself to research laboratories. Even the student body was regarded not as boys and girls to be taught, but as a corpus vile, a collection of human guinea pigs tolerated for experimental...
...smokers totaled 136, against 10 who do not use tobacco; 116 avowed that they drank, while 44 declared themselves abstainers...
...fauna and remarks on What a Wonderful Thing True Love Was (he was then engaged to somebody else who ditched him later) made Flavia decide to dress up in masculine tweeds and take a look at this Earthly Paradise he talked about. She found the scenery marvelous, but everybody drank Scotch before breakfast-and Druro, who failed to recognize her in her knickerbockers, was on the way to seeing purple elephants. So she rescued him, after many struggles and an incidental murder-her sex was finally discovered and the mystery of her past cleared up satisfactorily -and she and Druro...
Frank Harris, critic and publisher: " On my 68th birthday in Paris I told an American reporter: 'I have come to Paris because I am going to put anything I want in my stomach. . . . Forty years ago I was in Paris. I knew Sarah Bernhardt and Guy de Maupassant. I drank then and I have been drinking ever since...