Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be calling Benny Goodman's records jazz classics. All of a sudden Benny will become the idol of those whose esoteric writings dismiss him as "commercial" today. If he dies, so much the better, for he will be immortal, like Bix, and legends will tell of how be drank himself to death and of how he just played because he loved jazz and the hell with the money anyway. Finally, any statements to the effect that Benny might not have been the greatest, most moving, relaxed, sincere, inviolated clarinetist in the world, will automatically become anathema...
Meddling Through. Toasts were drunk in Tokyo last month, also to the future. German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott, feared and respected by the Japanese as he does not fear and respect them, drank with Foreign Minister Kensuke Matsuoka, Italian Ambassador Mario Indelli and Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop's special envoy Heinrich von Stahmer to the future of the three-way pact. But last week there was mostly a show of temper in Tokyo. The opening of the Burma Road...
...unhappy, Dale made few friends, immersed himself in the study of difficult languages-Assyrian, Catalan, Hungarian. For relaxation, he joined the Verein Turmwächter (Harvard's German Club), became its treasurer. With fellow club members, he spoke German, drank beer, sang German songs, heard German speakers, discussed German culture. For all their Germanic carousing, his companions remained good democrats. But they soon began to discern in Dale Maple a growing admiration for Adolf Hitler, and for Nazi "efficiency." Dale took perverse pleasure in shocking his associates by singing the Horst Wessel song and Deutschland Uber Alles. When pink...
...remaining five years of his life, Diamond Jim showered the doctor with presents and confidences. He never smoked nor drank, remarked Dr. Young, but used to say shyly: "There is one other little pleasure I am very fond...
...crowd estimated at from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000. But this time there was something different about the Legion. It was not that they behaved any better than they used to. The 125,000 visiting Legion men engulfed Boston, held up traffic, misdirected traffic, stopped traffic. They drank, sang, played practical jokes dear to middle-aged men on a tear. They squirted water pistols on girls' dresses, stockings (one fiend used 10? perfume in his pistol). They used electric shockers (disguised as brief cases, as canes) to electrify feminine rumps (some fiends used rubber bands, which stung...