Word: drank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morrow was reading the story of Hippoclides (chapter CXXVI through CXXIX) which describes the contest Clisthenes, tyrant of Sicyon, held to choose a husband for his daughter Agarista. After a year of trial, he preferred young Hippoclides of Athens, but on the evening of the choice, Hippoclides drank wine, danced upside down on a table, disgusted Clisthenes who cried: ''You have danced away your wife!" "Hippoclides cares not," said Hippoclides...
...Princeton. In his journal, he calls the venture a "missionary tour to Pittsburgh." He traveled alone across Pennsylvania on horseback and the trip took 15 days (June 10 to June 25, 1829). His journal, kept on the way. is a masterpiece of detail-the price of horse feed-he drank a glass of milk at Harrisburg-a friend of his father's kissed him after a sermon he had offered in return for a night's hospitality. He felt himself to be a pioneer of sorts and never forgot he was a man-although a very young...
...tournament, followed the play as though it were just a rather specially jolly match, with an inevitable conclusion, between her brother and a friend. After a good first nine, Brother Roger went, as usual, erratic. Jones stayed at top form. Four up at lunch, he ate a fruit salad, drank a glass of milk, went out and finished off match and title...
With hollow tubes inside their vests, wily Prohibition Agent H. H. Porter and assistants last week deployed on Atlantic City's boardwalk and drank with oldtime beer-hounds. While the beer-hounds drank, Agent Porter and crew put their liquor into their hollow tubes, to which access was available through the top vest-button. When the tubes disgorged their contents, the agents thought the giant Drink would be slain in Atlantic City. They had seen every sign af drunkenness in 15 different bars visited...
...fisticuffer, who maintained a third-rate boxing school and an oversexed wife, Martha. George entered the school, dazzled oldtimers with his monkey-like agility and his sure-fire punch. With success came Martha Walsh. George felt sorry when Tommy found out. When the World War broke out, George enlisted, drank vast quantities of liquor, did nothing startling. After it was over, he returned to boxing, won a battle with the world champion. Unsatisfied with his fame and wealth in Europe, he came to the U. S., found New York too much for him; learned what...