Word: drank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money in gold francs. "The night of the public burning of the books," said Author Ludwig. "I invited my friend, Erich Maria Remarque, to drink with me. We opened our oldest Rhine wine, turned on the radio, heard the flames crackling, heard the speeches of the Hitler spokesmen-and drank to the future...
...married about this time to Howard Coit (no relation to Cleveland's or Buffalo's Coits), then the leather-lunged Caller of the old Mining Exchange, but matrimony could not keep Lily out of the fire house. She answered every alarm, smoked, drank and played poker with the boys. She signed all her letters "Lily Hitchcock Coit-5." "L. H. C.-5" was embroidered on her chemises, and wherever she was on Oct. 17 she would drink a toast in iced champagne "to the Birthday of Number 5!" Oct. 17 found her once in Palestine, with champagne...
...could get it, he learned to thrive on savage fare. Few things turned his stomach. Once in Africa, stooping to drink from a shallow well, he saw in the water beneath his own reflection "the ragged black face of a man, newly murdered." But he was thirsty and drank "gratefully." Just returned to England at the outbreak of the Boer War, Talbot went back again as war correspondent. A slow-healing love affair drove him to Siberia, where he shot an ovis nivicula (mountain sheep), and a new species later named in his honor ovis cliftoni. He was stabbed...
Born 50 years ago in Breslau, Max Born was the first son of Professor Gustav Born, University of Breslau anatomy professor famed for pioneer experiments in grafting tadpoles, and of Margarete Kauffmann Born, sprig of a solidly established family of industrial weavers. At Gottingen he drank the intoxicating elixir distilled by the distinguished mathematicians Hilbert, Klein & Minkowski, was only 22 when Einstein's Relativity turned the universe topsy-turvy. Four years later, a teacher of theoretical physics, he was plunging along the labyrinths opened up by the master (his mathematical treatises include an exposition of Einstein theory), but with...
...General Hugh Samuel Johnson On his 85th birthday, August Heckscher, Manhattan capitalist, charitarian, motored out to the Peekskill camp where he entertains 300 poor children every summer. There he listened to a little girl's speech of congratulations, read a telegram from his friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt, drank three glasses of stout. News photographers had his enormous birthday cake brought outdoors, snapped him plunging a knife into it. Wearied by the noise and excitement, Charitarian Heckscher wandered down to the swimming pool, suddenly collapsed on its edge. Revived, he was taken back to Manhattan to recuperate. Also ill last...