Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came to pass last week at Caxton Hall Registry office in Westminster that Virginia Lucie became Lady Northampton. That day the tenants at Castle Ashby forgot about the war for one day and sang and danced and drank old ale, as tenants have done for centuries when the master takes a bride. "Be you all of good cheer," said His Lordship. "God bless you, sir, and may your line increase," the tenants cried. And then the Marquess and his Lady left for a honeymoon at His Lordship's country cottage at Loch Luichart in Scotland, and began to live...
...snatched a woman's pocketbook, made a lateral pass to a cyclist on the street, and both escaped. In Chinook, Mont., a big and a little dog went visiting back porches. The big dog knocked the milk bottles over, the little dog nipped out the bottle caps, both drank...
...authorities many a worry. Juvenile delinquency continues to rise; petty larceny is a main complaint. Boys twelve years old have even been caught stealing soap. Plymouth gasped recently when it learned of a 14-year-old boy who stole money even though earning ?9 a week, of another who drank nine pints of beer each night...
...biggest school system last week coyly re-enacted its birth. New York City's Board of Education was 100 years old. To celebrate, it dressed its little girls in pinafores and pantalettes, its little boys in jackets and Buster Brown collars. They read McGuffey readers, wrote on slates, drank water from dippers. Bearded teachers brandished canes at boys in dunce caps. A gentleman impersonating an old-time school trustee drove up to P.S. 15, The Bronx, in a gig. The city's schoolchildren were so bored they didn't even giggle...
Revisitor. In Portland, Ore., for the second time in a year a prowler broke into The Wee Taverne, rifled a pinball machine, ate a banana, drank a bottle of pop and left, undisturbed by the watchdog...