Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sort of benefit running to diamonds rather than dog tags, was the biggest social event in Paris since the liberation. In a whirl of color, General Joseph-Pierre Koenig, the British Ambassador and Lady Diana Duff Cooper, Prince Achille Murat. Lucien Lelong and a host of other celebrities drank champagne at $30 a bottle, netted the Canteen almost...
Something to Remember. As at Teheran, the eight days at Yalta were not all work. Roosevelt and Churchill talked, ate, drank together before the Marshal joined them. Then, between working sessions, came the toasts. One of Stalin's toasts named the gathering for history: "The Crimea Conference...
Robert Burns, greatest of Scottish poets, who supposedly drank himself to death (in 1796) when he was only 37, and whose admirers have periodically attempted to redeem his honor, got his bad reputation newly scotched by Dr. Sidney Watson Smith, onetime president of the British Medical Association. In the B.M.A.'s Journal, Dr. Smith presented medical evidence against the "gossip's fable," declared that Burns "suffered and died from subacute infective endocarditis -that microbic inflammation of the heart which usually has a fatal ending in septicaemia...
...Winston Churchill and Victoria's great-grandson, George VI, L.G. had fashioned a lot of English history. He had risen from a lower plane than most to do it. He could remember when Britain's aristocracy, calling at Downing Street, would watch to see if he drank his tea as a gentleman should...
Mike Jones was the child of divorced parents. He lived in almost puritanic simplicity with his mother, enjoyed the fleshpots of Brazil and Europe with his father. As a young man he slashed his wrists, ineffectually, over a faithless mistress. At 27 he was married and a father. He drank too much, spent too much, quarreled almost continually with his wife. Life seemed intolerable, and in the summer of 1940-helped by a fall on his head-Mike escaped into unreality...