Word: drank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hall was not a man to let the rewards of his invention slip through his fingers. He gave millions to Oberlin and other institutions, collected rare rugs, had a platoon of servants in his big house. Although he never drank, smoked or married, his health failed in his 40's and he died at 50 of a spleen disorder...
Apparently no Connecticut bank examiner ever went to Shanghai to inspect the books of the Raven Bank, which is incorporated in Connecticut, and thus Banker Raven conducted his business as he pleased, lived quietly in his $150,000 mansion, contributed to local churches, never drank, and invited confidence with the friendly slogan: Deposit Your Money in This Bank and Become A Partner. While her husband sat in a Shanghai jail, Mrs. Raven continued last week to reside in Germany at Heidelberg, where the Raven daughters are completing their higher education...
...with the Government, President Thomas N. McCarter of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey proposed a toast: "To the President of the United States!" Struck dumb, a few men got sheepishly to their feet, grinning. Somebody tittered. Then with a roar of laughter the audience stood and drank. "We are meeting here on a salubrious occasion," said Mr. McCarter soberly. "We are an industry with no troubles of any kind. The only thing we have to worry about is the Italian-Ethiopian...
...Arthur Marcus Loew, 38, vice president and general manager of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, one-time son-in-law of Adolph Zukor; by Barbara Mae Smith Loew, 25. onetime showgirl; in White Plains, N. Y. Charges: He treated her like a child, humiliated her before servants, called her a killjoy, drank excessively, abandoned her at parties, allowed women to put makeup on his face, pinched her dog, harassed her canary. Mrs. Loew asked $3,000 per month maintenance, $25,000 for counsel fees, $2.500 for special costs. Mr. Loew: "Preposterous...
...years between 1927 and 1930, "when the world saw some pretty heavy drinking," Gloria Wandrous became one of the world's heaviest drinkers, inhabiting the tough and fancy speakeasies of Manhattan, where she awed bartenders by the amount she drank. Despairing, weary, intuitive, this 22-year-old girl went on sprees when she "drank rye and water all day long. When she remembered that she had not eaten for 24 hours she would go to a place where the eggs were to be trusted, order a raw egg, break it in an Old Fashioned cocktail tumbler, shoot Angostura bitters...