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Word: drank (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alumni and invited guests ate, drank, cheered, and sang in the Harvard Club last night, the curtain came down on the successful football season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 471 JAM HARVARD CLUB AT VICTORY FOOTBALL DINNER | 12/11/1937 | See Source »

...neat black beard, his hefty frame, his genial smile, seemed a fine figure of a man. Twirling a big walking stick, Father Balaban made a point of circulating in his parish to collect contributions for the church, often turned up at night in Serbian haunts, where he smoked and drank as heartily as anyone. A onetime coal miner in Indiana, ordained a priest after attending a Russian seminary in Pennsylvania, Father Balaban had gone to St. Louis in 1918, remained for ten years, returned at the congregation's begging in 1934, after a sojourn in Manhattan. Holy Trinity paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Balaban & Cash | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...third soul, called KA, went to the tomb with the man's body but lived on there. It drank of the funeral beer, ate the funeral food, and lived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 11/16/1937 | See Source »

...Once upon a time life with the vitamins was simple. One drank pine needle tea (or vitamin C extract) to cure his scurvy. Now the average vitamin student is afflicted with as many alphabetical vitamins as Job was with boils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Funny Vitaminologist | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Labor Society. Even less like a fighting machine was the convention out of session. A joy to Denver's hotelmen, the unionists ate expensively, drank extensively, took all the best rooms and confined their fun mainly to poker. Mr. Green stayed in an $18-per-day suite in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where he was served by a union waiter, had his bed made by a non-union chambermaid. Across the street in the Brown Palace, Michael Carrozzo of the Hod Carriers, Building & Common Laborers' Union had a $15-per-day suite. Two delegates from the International Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fighting Machine | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

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