Word: drank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verdict was brought in long enough to repeat Samuel Insull's lines: "I never in my life did anything wrong." Following a revealing investigation into the Zintak jury's joyride Judge Benjamin P. Epstein last week held the entire panel in contempt of court. Five jurors who drank & danced were sentenced to serve five days in jail. Six who drank but did not dance received three-day sentences. A 37-year-old telephone mechanic named Leo Fahey, who merely watched, was fined...
Faithful Mary claims, and police records of Newark, N. J. back her up to a considerable extent, that she once drank, ate garbage, stole milk, became a depraved wreck before the influence of Father Divine restored her to health and happiness...
...road 64 days in all, but nine days were used as rest periods. "Used the same pair of skates the entire trip. Used 480 steel wheels in all. Used 960 cones on both pairs of skates. Used eight rubber cushions on both pairs of skates. . . ." Skaters Skelly & Shefuga drank only milk and water, daily ate five meals and took two baths. Their trip cost $1,400. For brakes they used canes which were four inches shorter when they arrived than when they started. On smooth level roads they went as fast as 20 m.p.h. Their highest speed: 40 m.p.h. down...
...Port. From here Edmund Dantes, the Abbe Faria and other prisoners were taken to Chateau d'If. The prison isn't as romantic looking as Paramount did it for. The Count of Monte-Cristo-but it's all there: The cell where Dantes slept, the cup from which he drank, and for a franc or two you can touch the initials he carved on the wall. Why do such things thrill us? Perhaps it's the secret desire we all have for immortality, for fame. One tourist with horn-rimmed glasses paid his franc and then proceeded to carve...
...Irishman named Charles Byrne to escape the dissecting knives of John Hunter, great 18th Century anatomist. Hunter wanted the giant's bones for his medical museum. Byrne opposed the idea and, anticipating an early death as all giants do, planned cunningly to outwit the scientist. When he drank himself to death in London in 1783, aged 22, a London newspaper reported that "the whole tribe of surgeons put in a claim for the poor departed Irishman and surrounded his house, just as harpooners would an enormous whale." But Byrne had arranged with friends to cart his body...