Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Original Pontigny. In his Burgundian abbey, Historian-Critic Paul Desjardins, a Sevres normal-school professor, during 23 summers assembled groups of scholars, writers, artists, for decades (ten-day periods). They drank the local wine, walked by the local river, played intellectual games, reveled in organized chats on fixed topics led by experts. Old Pontigny stars: Andre Gide, Paul Valery, Roger Fry, Gaetano Salvemini...
...clear sounded," said a Danish worker, "the people came out of the shelters and many were almost naked." The food supply could not be organized at once and people pounced on fruits and vegetables outside or inside shops. Thirsty people besieged a truck from a fish market and drank the water dripping from the ice inside the fish boxes...
...incidental food, yeast is a veteran: in the Middle Ages, when young & old drank quantities of yeasty beer daily, it was almost a staple of the European diet. The U.S. people eat 200,000,000 lb. of yeast a year, most of it in bread. Fleischmann has developed two varieties now widely used in breakfast foods and as vitamin pills...
...near did steal away the show ... The thing that did make a big hit with all the Lads seemed to be those tall, cool pitchers of claret punch and those snappy waitresses who seemed to be on hand just as the glass was empty ... The Music? Oh, yes, I drank that...
...Eileen, 10, drank because she was dull in school. "She was in the same class for the third successive term. She stopped on her way to class at her aunt's home . . . every morning and surreptitiously took drinks [of liquor] in increasing number till she was found to be sleeping through class. Finally, she never reached school, falling in a coma on a street corner...