Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group the nine painters went swimming, played tennis, ate, drank, toured Walt Disney's studios. Every 15 minutes or so they took time out to listen to war news. As a wind-up celebration Producer Wanger (proud of his first venture into the arts) gave them a reception attended by 400 of Hollywood's Who's Who. Afterwards cinema stars were heard to declare that they were going to visit some art galleries, now that they knew how painting was done. How they had got their own paintings done was not so clear to the painters...
...than most of the thrillers chronicled by Lancelots of the microscope. Professor Haldane has an honorable history as a guinea-pig, both his father's and his own. He has had more experience of chlorine than it is to be hoped that the reader ever will; he writes: "I . . . drank large amounts of various chemicals in solution, some of which have since been used in medicine, though generally in smaller doses than I took. I think I hold the record for the amounts of ammonium, calcium, and strontium chlorides which I have taken." In one essay, "After-effects of Exposure...
...take him for one. He could take it all right. I think it was in the summer of 1931, when he established a National Government in Canton against Chiang Kaishek, [that] I presented him with a cask of Akita sake (rice wine) from my native province and we drank together one night at his house in Tung-shan [suburb of Canton]. He drank sake, cold, from a big glass and swallowed big mouthfuls, instead of, like us, heating it and sipping it from tiny cups. But he didn't seem a bit influenced by alcohol. I suppose...
...flight, control of the Dutch business empire went to dozens of Emile Zimmermans, from London to Batavia, from Manhattan to Shanghai. This week, sleepless but hearty, Emile Zimmerman was able to give U. S. business a good, if sketchy, idea of readjustments in the empire while he drank coffee from office Gouda china in Manhattan's new Holland House...
...conscious sheaf called Miscellany that lasted one year. Their later vehicle, the Partisan Review, was first published in 1934 as an organ of the John Reed (Leftist writers') Club of New York, among its editors being two literate Leftists named Philip Rahv and William Phillips. Writer Dupee meanwhile drank at the revolutionary fount in Mexico, returned to Manhattan to work for the New Masses. What threw him and Rahv and Phillips together and incidentally off the orthodox Party line was the blatant Soviet tyranny over culture, the Soviet political debacle of the Moscow Trials...