Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elephant Rumbles. Between extractions and fillings, Eskelund carried on a romance with a half-caste native girl named Oolong, went on elephant hunts ("You must stand still . . . until you hear the rumble in the elephant's belly"), drank Haig & Haig with the King. Later he moved to Shanghai, where he built a prosperous practice among the Chinese by knocking 10% off his bill (after first adding 10% to the charge). When his son went out from Denmark to join him in 1935, Dr. Eskelund's prestige was already high. Said the sign of one Chinese practitioner...
...Paiyen's few intellectuals-a primary schoolteacher who had wholeheartedly joined the Communists and become a magistrate. A report had reached Chen's ears, once, that an old woman carrying water through the fields had met some thirsty Government scouts. They drank from her earthen jars and went off. Wrathful Chen had summoned the old woman. "Why did you cooperate with Chiang's troops?" he shouted. "Why did you give them water to drink?" Then crying, "We must make an example," Magistrate Chen had ordered her head...
...WHICH HAS GRIEVED MY BROTHER JAMES AND MYSELF AS WELL AS OUR FAMILIES. . . . MY BROTHER ROWLAND DIED AS THE RESULT OF HAVING BEEN GASSED IN THE 1914 WAR, AND CERTAINLY ANY IMPLICATION THAT HE DIED FROM DRINK IS WRONGFUL TO THE MEMORY OF THIS FINE MAN. THE PHRASE, "WHO DRANK," MIGHT LEAD YOUR READERS TO BELIEVE THAT HE DRANK TO EXCESS. . . . ROWLAND WAS NOT A TEETOTALER BUT DRANK IN MODERATION AS DO MILLIONS OF OTHERS...
Down with All Quacks! The Journal lost its first suit, which was filed by the makers of Wine of Cardui, a herb-and-alcohol mixture advertised as a cure for "any sort of female trouble," but widely sold to men who drank it straight). The A.M.A. considered the loss (if damages) a great moral victory. Soon afterward, when Fishbein became editor, he was encouraged to begin beating the bushes. Some of the odd game he flushed: a healer named Percival Lemon Clark, who attacked all diseases with a "sanatology blower" that was supposed to "dry clean the entire [internal] system...
...told in flashbacks by Navy Flyer Van Johnson to a notably patient fellow derelict, as they drift along the Pacific in a disabled plane. As a small-town boy Van wanted to be a doctor, and spent a lot of time with the little girl next door. He drank down the wild stories of his seafaring uncle (Thomas Mitchell) as eagerly as the uncle drank whiskey. The uncle's tales of the uncharted, paradisiacal island "High Barbaree" especially fascinated the boy; High Barbaree became his byword for all he ever hoped to do and be. While he dreamed...