Word: drank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the news that the whale-nosed Bremen had lowered the Atlantispeed record by nearly nine hours, the City of Bremen went wild last week. Germany's President, rheumy Paul von Hindenburg. sent congratulatory telegrams. City fathers, clubs and corporations lunched and dined, rapturously drank each other's health. In New York, correspondents of German newspapers rushed pages and pages to the cable offices, announcing that the entire city had Ein furchtbares Bremenfieber, a furious Bremen-fever. With precision they noted these points...
...Chicago, George Greenwood drank embalming fluid, recovered...
Stultz Drunk. What many suspected when able Pilot Wilmer Stultz killed himself and two passengers (TIME, July 8), a coroner's inquest ascertained last week. He was drunk. War flyers condoned. Most of them drank to steady their nerves when flying was killing. Plane travelers condemned. For their safety they need total abstainers. Transport companies replied. Their pilots shall not drink...
Tall, blond and 15, John Davison Rockefeller left his small-town family in Parma, Ohio, and went north to Cleveland. There he paid $1 a week for board. He shot no pool, drank no beer, sang no barbershop ballads, ogled no wenches. He satisfied his social needs in the Erie Street Baptist Church. There he would memorize hymns and Scripture passages, play clerk to the trustees, mingle with solid people, spend little. A sanctimonious social life satisfied him, but high school did not. Though nattered by his academic nickname, "The Deacon," he was lured early by Business. Leaving school...
...enemies who are willing to exploit my son in the newspapers . . . will yet see him resist the temptations . . . and be what his mother prayed he would be and what I expect him to be - a fine and useful man to his day and generation." Said Junior Heflin: "I drank about a pint of grain alcohol mixed with two parts of ginger ale at a party with some boys and girls in an apartment . . . that's all that was wrong with me. . . . I told [the officer] I had taken a veronal tablet. . . . I used the same excuse when...