Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soil floors, across a stark desert of slippery sand and sharp stones, across an eroded tableland, through the magnificent mountain peaks (highest: 11,200 ft.) of Tibesti, along the edges of 1,000 ft.-precipices looking down on valleys full of bulrushes, across wastes of crumbling volcanic rock. They drank from sweet wells and pools bitter as quinine from the stalings of endless camels...
...fever for what was left of living, abjectly destroyed everything she had, her class, her selfesteem, even her self-deceit. Her Golgotha was a hideous gin-party in Maida Vale with Wally, a model, a radio pianist, an auto racer, a girl who stood on her head and drank two pints of beer...
...drank coffee every...
...better job, but Jock Bellairs went on covering police. He helped to break in Herbert Bayard Swope, Theodore Dreiser, Paul Y. Anderson-all cubs when Jock was already a veteran. His exploits were legend in St. Louis. Once, with some friends, he dragged a dead Chinese to a bar, drank heartily, left the Chinese to pay the bill. Once he tried to drive a horse and buggy across the Mississippi River...
...attend in native costume or uniform. The Dutch sent word that those who attend receptions of the Governor General always go in formal European dress. Immediately, each tailor shop in town received orders for five or six small tail coats. At the reception, Colonel Itsuo Ishimoto of the mission drank more Bols gin than was good for him, became attracted by the long curved creese of a Javanese prince. The creese is more than a sword to the Javanese; it is a sacred symbol, and if it is drawn rashly and without preliminary invocations, Javanese believe that misfortune overtakes...