Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Variations. In Milwaukee, arrested for drunkenness, Trumpet Player Arden J. Klassa, 34, blamed his troubles on the fact that he looks so much like Liberace, and "a lovely young brunette" was so struck with the resemblance that "we went to a lovely cocktail lounge, we discussed music, we each drank eleven martinis...
...number of local girls attended the affair, and as Eze describes it. "One of them drank so much that she went into the ladies' room and went to sleep right there. The others forgot about her until much later when they returned to the Hall about two o'clock yelling for 'Peggy! Peggy!" Eze and his friends still call the party the "Peggy" affair...
...Portsmouth, Ohio, Judge Lowell Thompson dismissed a drunken-driving charge against Robert Fortenberry, 32, after hearing Fortenberry's explanation: in his home state of Georgia, police confiscate an auto if liquor is found in it, so rather than lose his new car after a traffic mishap, he drank the half-pint of whisky he had under the seat...
...year. Please send two copies each week-one to Nip and one to Nap. Nap gets to the box before I do." A little investigation cleared up the mistake. It seems that twin brother Nip (christened Willie but always called Nip because he drank so much milk as a baby) began subscribing to TIME in 1945. He would read it first, then pass the copy along to Nap (christened Walter but always called Nap because he slept so much as a child), who finally got tired of secondhand copies and bought a subscription...
...called, out of the house any minute. Little left now but a minute to take a drink at the door . . . Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him ... and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah...