Word: drank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every fascinated soul in the courtroom listened. Dr. Arnold told what a thoroughgoing medical expert he was: "I went to my barber and had my neck shaved. Then to raise my blood pressure to a high level I ate a large meal, drank many cups of coffee, and smoked several cigarets...
...workmen was a Russian called Peter with a temper like gunpowder, who did five men's work in a day and drank at night with the capacity of a suction pump. Was there a great spar to be lifted or an anchor to be moved into place? Call Peter. Get the Russian to do it. And Peter would rush up like a regiment of Cossacks and fall to as though his life were at stake. Except sometimes, when he appeared to be sketching in a notebook. Then he would be deaf as a stone, and dynamite couldn't move...
...that a private company had a perfect right to buy territory from the natives. The early work was done behind a screen of humanitarian phrases about suppressing the slave trade and taking the Bible to the Congo, but Leopold, the exploiter, eventually merged. Leopold guarded his health, ate well, drank large quantities of hot water, hated his wife for bearing him daughters, took many mistresses, raised fruit, read the London Times, vied with Bismarck in his talent for official propaganda, worked from dawn to dusk. To support the ego of this promoter-king, black men were mauled by leopards, ripped...
...life in books, in the queer characters he ran up against, in "platonic"' friendships with women students. Finally he sent for Neloa. But by now their marriage was too near the rocks. When he told Neloa that he loved another woman and intended to leave her, Neloa despairingly drank poison. Too late Vridar knew he loved her best...
...year senior, Lee, served in the Mexican War, but his no less brilliant accomplishments were overlooked, says McCormick. Shortly afterward he resigned from the army, under the accusation of intoxication while paying off troops. His belligerent biographer does not admit the truth of the charge, denies that Grant ever drank more "than any number of successful men in and out of military life." Later, however, he admits that Grant was induced by one of his subordinates to sign the pledge for the duration of the war, sometimes broke...