Word: drank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armed bandit lairs?but found no bandits in them. Troop movements were hindered a good deal by the fact that the expeditionary force of 800 gendarmes was accompanied by an additional force of about 200 French, British, U. S., Italian and Spanish reporters who tipped off the natives unwittingly, drank up all the beer and asked so many questions that General Fournier found it impossible to concentrate. The air of Ajaccio, the air that fed the genius of the young Napoleon, gave General Fournier an idea or two. He ordered two gross of tricolored arm bands, drew...
...first meeting. Bold old John Hays Hammond was the last to arrive. The committee's other four members?Admiral Hugh Rodman (retired), Assistant Secretary of the Navy Jahncke, Undersecretary of State Castle and Eliot Wadsworth?elected him chairman. The five White House investigators, closeted in a private room, drank "Black Cows" (dark ginger ale and cream) as they pored over documents and records brought from the State & Navy Departments. President Hoover had limited their field of investigation, for they were only "to examine the accuracy of fact" in the Gardiner statement and not go "into his opinions or conclusions...
...business. The Vagabond likes to feel that there were giants upon the earth in the old days, and that, as like as not, there will be giants again. He is willing to accept great men for the service they rendered the country; it matters as little how much Washington drank as what the real story is behind all that cherry tree discussion...
...Next day she went to Annapolis, strolled about with Commandant of Midshipmen Capt. Henry D. Cooke and later with handsome Navy Tackle Lou Bryan, one of eight midshipmen with whom she drank...
...separation suit, obtaining $7,500 a month alimony, custody of their three children, and a court order restraining Publisher McLean from divorcing her in Mexico (TIME, Nov. 17, 1930, June 22, 1930); in Washington. Her charges: that he lived "for protracted periods" with an unnamed woman; that he drank excessively and caused Mrs. McLean "bodily suffering by beating her and striking her, cursing and calling her vile names." A second suit petitions the District of Columbia Supreme Court to remove Publisher McLean as co-trustee of the estate of his late father, John Roll McLean, which owns the Post...