Word: drank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced: "We're all set. The bartenders will be all fine, clean, upstanding young men. They'll be classy." ¶In Chicago 741 hotels, restaurants, lunch rooms and night clubs were granted municipal beer-selling licenses. ¶The National W. C. T. U. shrilled: "No nation ever drank itself out of a depression. If women take to the beer habit they have only to look at some of the beer-drinkers in the London slums to see what is ahead of them. BEER MAKES...
...Chang Tso-lin. Self-made, he rose from despised cooliehood through common banditry & murder to become the ruler of Manchuria. Capturing Peking in 1926 he made himself in effect a King-Dictator, negotiating on equal terms with foreign governments. Affecting a fondness for tiger's blood, which he drank warm from the beast as an aphrodisiac, Old Chang was one of the last absolute monarchs, complete with a decadent, dissolute court and sure of instant obedience when he said (as he often did), "Cut off that man's [or woman's] head...
...Carpenter in which they termed themselves, "Assassins of Sorrow." From the titles you can guess that they were comedians. Through all of these performances the thing that I remember distinctly is the extreme nervousness and stage fright of Fredric Bickel. Back stage before, during, and after each performance Fredric drank copious draughts of ice water and during dress rehearsal required considerable prompting from his partner. Fredric Bickel was always a modest and sensible sort of person: hence, I am led to agree with TIME that twelve years ago he would have been vastly surprised. . . . HOWARD ("SPARKS") DODGE...
...have their heads shampooed by trainers. Two to three weeks before fighting they spar in spurs covered with leather rolls. Oldtime English trainers fed their fowl a diet of seeds, plants, bark and roots, washed down with stale beer and ale, white wine, sack gin and whiskey. Thirsty trainers drank the mixture themselves, called it cock-bread-ale, cock-ale or cocktails...
Human proof of an effective antidote for cyanide poisoning was working as an orderly in a San Francisco county hospital last week. Cuthbert Reiveley, 24, onetime medical student at the University of Michigan, drank about 15 grains of potassium of cyanide in a tumbler half full of water, at once told some friends, fell unconscious. They rushed him to an emergency hospital where Dr. Raymund Joseph Millzner was presiding. Dr. Millzner judged from Cuthbert Reiveley's blue lips and fingernails what had happened, washed out the patient's stomach with a solution of baking soda. Sure enough...