Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holy Ghost," said the Archbishop, dabbing water from the font on the baby's brow. Young Prince Charles gurgled demurely, and ten well-scrubbed choirboys in Tudor uniforms of scarlet and gold sang out O Worship the King. Afterwards there was tea and christening cake, and everyone drank the baby's health in champagne...
George Marshall had borne up well under the sustained pressure of his big jobs. He did not smoke, drank very little, took good care of himself. But last, summer, he found that he tired easily; he submitted to his first thorough physical checkup since Pearl Harbor. The doctors found cysts in one kidney. An operation would be necessary...
...Detroit he went on to Des Moines. There he remarked on the largeness of the pears in a basket of fruit, visited Iowa State College, where he gingerly poked a pig. He looked in some astonishment on an "undulating Iowa countryside," which he had expected to be flat, and drank a glass of sherry at a cocktail party of Iowa bigwigs...
...Hack") Wilson, 48, colorful, brawling onetime National League home-run king (in 1930 he hit 56, four short of Ruth's record); in Baltimore. An ex-coal miner, Wilson joined the New York Giants in 1923, hit his peak from 1926 to 1931 with the Chicago Cubs, finally drank his way out of the big leagues, ended up broke...
...Until his death at 40, Poe's life had an appalling consistency of trouble-brief periods of success followed by long years of misery, quarrels with one after another of his backers, tigerlike leaps on his fellow poets for plagiarism, mud-slinging campaigns with rival editors. He drank, and at times took opium, stopped drinking whenever his work went well. Yet in each serious battle his enemies raked up the old stories, and in these letters Poe is constantly admitting his guilt and explaining that he has reformed...