Word: drank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refusing to become just another symphonic series, Boston's Pops have once more proved themselves unique, once more established their resistance to changing fashions. The Pops Were started 45 years ago, patterned after the Bilse Concerts in Berlin where people ate, drank and smoked while listening to music. Such a scheme was highly adventuresome for Boston in the '80s but the musicians imported for the Symphony by the late Major Henry Lee Higginson needed more than their winter engagements to support their families. They were tired, too, of ponderous scores and strangely enough they found Society in the same mood...
...been libeled. "Smoking and drinking by modern women," counsel for Mr. Bennett told them, "is an established custom. It therefore is not libel to say a woman does something which custom makes perfectly proper for her to do." Teacher Warren's lawyers, however, stated that she never drank or smoked, that "she didn't think nice women did such things." Soon the jurymen began wrangling loud enough to be heard in the courtroom. When they appeared next day without a decision, five of them would not speak to the other seven...
Divorced. George Sunday, son of Evangelist William ("Hit-the-Sawdust-Trail") Sunday; by Mrs. Harriet May Sunday. Uncontested charges: he drank excessively, hit her, associated with other women...
...Whenever he was out of a job he sent telegrams to his sister Ethel asking for money. Another source of income in bad times was his friendship with Frank Butler, a newspaper reporter who had a detachable gold tooth that could be pawned for 70?. Barrymore and Butler often drank...
...drinkers, 852 drank frequently (more than once a fortnight); 1,022 drank occasionally...