Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their marriage lasted for nine one-sidedly faithful years in the country during which Husband Dudevant straightened garden paths, shot mangy dogs, shot the peacocks that soiled the lawns and the drawing-room rugs, drank, hunted, carried on affairs with the servants, speculated with his wife's money. At last George Sand dashed off to Paris and Author Jules San-deau, who greeted her with: "Welcome to Bohemia...
...rose is as true as the cabbage!", young Romantics were shattering the classical drama. Plays like Hugo's Hernani, Dumas' Antony, Poet de Vigny's Chatterton ravished the intellectuals with lines like "Death to society; Death to reaction!", while white-robed heroines drank poison and bearded young heroes swung daggers...
...Trotsky for criticism of a manuscript. Amiable Host Trotsky invited him into the house. They entered, Jackson in the lead, carrying a topcoat over his arm. In the dining room Natalie Sedova Trotsky met them, and, Russian-fashion, offered the guest a glass of tea. Jackson asked for water, drank it without disturbing the topcoat slung over his left arm. Then Trotsky and Jackson passed into the study. Jackson did not put down the topcoat...
...retired, thrice married ex-spouse of the Duchess of Windsor; and Norma Reese Johnson Spencer. 47; in Santa Monica, Calif. During a stormy session of accusations and counteraccusations Navyman Spencer, charged with cruelty and habitual intemperance, testified that his weekly liquor bill was only about $10, that his wife "drank as much...
When Marco Pallis first went to India in 1933 he was mainly interested in climbing mountains. He climbed some. He also debunked the notion that Europeans can scale the great Indian peaks only with the help of platoons of native porters. In his spare time he drank buttered tea and, with a companion, played Bach's Two-part Inventions on viols...