Word: drank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many years was a rowing coach in this country, declared that the drinking athlete would beat the teetotaller every time. The statement was made in answer to Lady Astor's pronouncement in the House of Commons that England was losing on the cricket field because her players drank...
Last year a poll among Yalemen showed that 71% of the student body drank (TIME, March 24). Last fortnight the Woman's Christian Temperance Union issued figures compiled from a survey of U. S. land-grant colleges showing that in 1928 only .16 of 1% of the undergraduates were disciplined for drinking...
...Less respectful last week were burglars who broke into Dr. Einstein's summer home at Caputh, Germany, drank his wine, stole a piece of Japanese embroidery...
While scores & scores of guests at Belle Livingstone's "Mecca of Merriment" (TIME, Nov. 10) drank, ping-ponged, played miniature golf and rigadooned one night last week, a group of determined individuals muscled their way past the doorman. One of them interrupted the orchestra, seized a megaphone and-as every one acquainted with the place had expected would happen some day soon- announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, the next number of the program will be a raid. The place is in the custody of the Federal Government." Hostess Livingstone fled across her wee golf course, tried...
...exhaustive. No debunker but a solid and serious historian, Fuess has filled two fat volumes with facts about his hero, facts which somehow, however, do not add up into a speaking likeness. Some facts you may have forgotten: that Daniel Webster took drugs for his chronic diarrhea, drank a good deal, and died of cirrhosis of the liver. No less authorities than the late Henry Cabot Lodge, James Ford Rhodes implied that Webster was overfond of women, but Fuess categorically denies it. Webster had a slow but inexhaustible mind, no reputation as a wit, no interest in the arts...