Word: drank
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After a clinch over a divorce settlement and alimony, Hollywood's No. 1 box-office draw, John (The Quiet Man) Wayne, 46, and his estranged, Mexican-born wife, Esperanza, 31, suddenly broke clean and began swinging wildly in court. John, Esperanza charged, drank too much. "All the trouble I've had came out of a bottle," said she. Then she recalled how He-Man Wayne had dragged her about by the hair and another time by a foot in hotels. Nonsense, retorted John. It was Esperanza's own "excessive drinking" that caused her to fall sometimes...
...materialism-like the characters in an old morality play. The book is full of generalizations that might be fun as caricatures but are disturbing if taken seriously. Examples: the U.S. hates abstract thought; bullfighting is popular in U.S. literature because Americans are obsessed with death; most old-line tycoons drank half a quart of whisky every day. And in Newport, "in every house where I was invited [there was] a white-coated barman whom everybody called 'Fido...
...married her. He used to come back to Pleasanton in a Cadillac convertible with men whom he fatuously introduced as "my broker" and "my lawyer." During the next four years, he lost money playing the stock market, in liquor-store ventures and in an airplane crop-dusting business. He drank and gambled. His wife left him. He turned to passing bad checks in hospitals, and then to holding up cab drivers. In 1952, he went to the Missouri penitentiary for robbery...
...hard to ask Frenchmen to drink more than their bellyful for the sole purpose of draining off the harvest surplus." Frenchmen, already the world's biggest consumers of alcoholic beverages (seven gals, per person per year, on a pure alcohol basis, v. one gal. per American), drank about 1.2 billion gals, of wine last year, 75% of what they put away in prewar years. Yet wine production was about the same as before the war (1.9 billion gals.), almost a third of the world's output...
...past cheering crowds. He summoned Istanbul's elite to the Sultan's palace to a ball, and stood before them in full evening dress on a raised platform, chalk in hand, before a blackboard. For two hours he explained the new language, then the music blared, everyone drank, and the dancing went on until dawn. Nineteen twenty-eight became the Year One of Turkey's new cultural life...