Word: drank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human interest story. All Manhattan newssheets gave him stories, while the World paid him to attach his name to a series of articles recounting his experiences. The series told: about a woman who entered his cab saying "Drive me to Hell!", plunged through her biography in luridly improbable terms, drank liquor from a bottle and implied an improper proposal in her admission that she had no money to pay the fare; about two Negresses, who, while sitting in Thomas Whelpley's cab, engaged in a long conversation on their ability to present the appearance of white persons, a conversation...
...peculiarly Yankee, a blue-bellied, Vermont Yankee to the core. He had exhibited absolutely no initiative. He had spoken no memorable phrase. ... He played no poker, drank no liquor, made few friends. And Mrs. Coolidge, who had come with him from the duplex apartment in Northampton, Massachusetts, for which they had been paying twenty-seven dollars a month all their married life, and who moved with him into one of Washington's rather grand but noisy hotels, had to work hard, those first seventeen Washington months of the Vice-Presidency, keeping him awake after bedtime in Northampton at nine...
...Great Dane named Jefferson, whom the Governor addressed now and then to ease his mind. Mrs. Emily Smith Warner (eldest daughter) and her husband were there, too. Also Walter Smith (youngest son), Mrs. Belle Moskowitz (chief publicist) and her husband; also secretaries, friends, newsgatherers. The Governor chewed long cigars, drank water frequently. His face was redder than usual. His hands moved constantly, though not fidgeting...
Forty-three years ago people sat at tables and drank their beer while listening for the first time thus informally to the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The experiment proved so successful that the concerts acquired the name of "Pops" and thrived. Tonight, just as forty-three years ago, people group themselves around tables and listen to the orchestra--only tonight soft drinks will take the place of the beer of years gone...
...disabled American Veterans of the World War. They will use it as a rest home. Said she at a dinner of disabled veterans in Minneapolis: "I make this gift . . . because you called me 'Mother'. . . . Six years ago in Minneapolis you disabled men drank a silent toast to the two sons I lost in the War-one on the American side and the other on the German. May you all go to California and rest in the most glorious spot I know...