Word: drank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week that $250,000 had been spent on official hospitality. With every Great Power spending more than $200,000 on its delegation, correspondents estimated the total conference cost last week at more than $5,000,000. Despite record London heat this summer the 2,000 delegates, experts and secretaries drank far less at the Conference's Long Bar than the optimistic concessionaires had expected. Chief Bartender "Jock" mournfully reported last week that they drank only 12,000 lager beers, only 3,000 gin fizzes, those being the most popular refreshers...
...children with perfect teeth lived, contained only a trace of fluorine. So Oakley at some expense dug new community wells where fluorine measured no more than one-half part to a million. Then parents waited to see how the enamel looked on the second teeth of children who drank the untainted water. In the current Journal of the American Dental Association Dr. McKay reported what little Oakley has been rejoicing over. No child born after the water change has mottled teeth. Every child whose second teeth had begun to form before the water change had teeth mottled to some extent...
Celebrated. The 40th wedding anniversary of Britain's George & Mary; at Buckingham Palace. Royal servants drank the traditional toast in champagne...
...final low of her theatrical career was hit at Coney Island in a sideshow. When not on duty she liked to go to the shooting galleries. Kiki Roberts, who is pretty, did considerably better in hei vaudeville appearances. This spring Mrs. Diamond got to drinking, and when she drank she talked. In a Brooklyn speakeasy the fat and garrulous widow would boast that she was "tired protecting a lot of mugs." Last week some mug put a .38 revolver very close to her temple and killed her. The superintendent, with whose family she liked to play cards, and two painters...
...which sanctioned the permits which opened the kegs which filled the glasses which held the beer that Jack drank in the state of Massachusetts, was rather hastily drawn up, in a pardonable fervor for the immediate start of tippling. It had several minor flaws, in the sections relating to licensing, in the lack of provision for sales in universities, and in the prohibition of beer to minors. In the first instance, the bill has already been amended and it should, in the interests of common sense, be further patched up during the coming session of the Assembly...