Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...levees on high-stacked steamboats, but many a planter had moved to town to be a businessman. Memphis nights were noisy with roistering male voices and the jangle of sporting-house pianos. Gunmen, loggers, sunburned planters, rivermen from all the channels between St. Louis and New Orleans fought, gambled, drank and consorted with brigades of painted Memphis whores...
...past decade China's most celebrated political prisoner has been Chang Hsueh-liang, better known as the "Young Marshal." Son of fabulous "Old Marshal" Chang Tso-lin, who drank tiger blood and warlorded it over Manchuria until his assassination in 1928, the Young Marshal kidnaped Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the fantastic Sian incident of 1936. Eventually he freed the Gissimo and surrendered himself, crying: "I, Hsueh-liang, am by nature rude and uncouth. . . . Blushing with shame, I receive from you . . . the punishment I deserve...
...Danes gave Bernhard and Juliana the prized Order of the Elephant. Grateful but rueful, Bernhard commented privately: "There are two kinds of decorations-those for valor and those for banqueting; I get all the eating decorations." Wilhelmina, who used to disapprove of Bernhard's prewar frivolity (he even drank cocktails on Sunday) now thinks so much of him that she lets him smoke in her dining room...
...officer) considered any young woman fair prey, and did not hesitate to make a pass at her. He chased women openly all over Europe, not merely professionals but any woman. ... It was also a heavy drinking army.... He drank not with discretion and good manners, but like a beast...
...Hear You Talking. The hostel usually housed an average of ten regulars (mostly U.S. and British), but at peak periods as many as 40 crowded into its thin-walled cubicles. Telephone conversations were communal; men and women loafed, worked, ate and drank together in what one correspondent described as "spiritual and gossipy incest...