Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allen G. Lynch, 43, a Pittsburgh lawyer, drank himself out of his practice. After several hospital attempts at a cure failed, he wound up in helpless seclusion oh a friend's farm. His estranged wife sued the Mutual Life Insurance Co. for benefits under his disability policies. Said Judge Claude T. Reno, of the state superior court, in rejecting the claim...
...waiters at Mory's were appalied Friday night when a contingent of Red Raiders raided, sat down at the Whiffenpoof table, drank Whiffenpoof beer, sang Whiffenpoof songs (off key), and departed without paying, after signing a Whiffenpoof check...
...very moment is making a statement in front of a lamppost while the mob is shouting, urging that he be hanged. . . . From about a hundred yards we watch helplessly what is happening. There is a priest beside Eguino. . . . Right now Eguino was killed with two shots and hanged. He drank a bottle of Coca-Cola just before he died." That night, while the bodies were still hanging, there was a sudden flash of lightning. All city lights went out for ten or 15 seconds. In the frightened crowd in the plaza a woman screamed: "The voice...
...another column last week Pegler sought to expose F.D.R.'s capacity and taste in liquor. Wrote he: "The President drank Martinis ... a horror to all well-mannered drinkers." Peg erred. F.D.R. was an Old-Fashioned man. Apropos his own bottle habits, Pegler, like a small boy writing on a blackboard, once repeated, for an entire post-New Year's Day column, a pledge not to mix his drinks...
...Quebec City banners urged: "Allans à I'Exposition." At the rate of 31,000 a day les Québecois poured into town-children, priests, nuns, farmers from Beauce and Beaupré. On the fairgrounds down on the flats of St. François parish they drank gallons of petite bière d'épinette, a mild sort of Gallic root beer; ate tons of frites (French fried potatoes); the children rode the miniature airplanes and the loop-the-loops, jubilantly dizzy...