Word: drank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the fight, 28-year-old Tony Galento announced his two ambitions: to knock out Joe Louis and to endorse a brand of beer. "Most of these here guys that endorse beer never drank a bottle." he swaggered. "Me, I train on it. The public would have some confidence in what I say about beer...
...Post character might kill Indians, but he could not smoke a cigaret. Last week a collection of 22 stories chosen from the 234 published in last year's Saturday Evening Post revealed how greatly they had changed since that genteel period. Post characters in 1937 not only drank, smoked and swindled, but in one story (George Sessions Perry's Edgar and the Dank Morass) a backwoods sweetheart behaved with almost Erskine Caldwell abandon, although her behavior was suggested rather than described...
...laid the foundations of the present Scripps-Howard empire was an extraordinary personality. An awkward, sensitive farm boy, born in Illinois, he grew up to despise formal education. Famed for his feuds and his acquisitiveness, he bullied advertisers and politicians, founded or acquired 44 newspapers from coast to coast, drank a gallon of spirits a day until he ruined his health...
...loving husband was seen dancing Big Apples with Garbo at Hollywood house parties. But the report had a cooked-up whiff to it. Garbo's Conquest was ready for release, and before such events Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pressagents invariably concoct romantic blurbs. But when last December "Stoky" drank fond farewells with Greta in Manhattan on the eve of her departure for Europe, most people agreed that something more than publicity was in the air. When Conductor Stokowski himself sailed for Italy last month, correspondents got orders to keep their eyes peeled...
...could get over him. Then I pulled out my watch and gosh all was left was ashes. 'Jiminy it must be late!' I thunk, and run into the East Coatroom for my Bromo Seltzer. It was gone and they were doing big bottles around the empty apples. So I drank something else which tasted fine so when the bottle came round again I took another swig. I felt fine then but there was so much elbow room there was nothing to lean on, so I attacked a surprise pull and leaned on the floor...