Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party given by the Moreau family of L'Islet County on a Saturday night in 1917. The Moreaus were entertaining on their small farm outside Cap Saint-Ignace for their son Pierre, who had been lumbering in the U.S. for three years. After dinner the guests drank deep of rum, curaçao and whisky, and the fiddler struck up a lively tune. "Let's dance," a guest proposed. Everyone remembered that the village priest had forbidden dancing, but Pierre's father winked at his wife and she laughed and said: "Why not? Pierre does not return...
...Davis decided to head to head for Rapa, a South Sea Island. The twenty-fifth day out, the approached the tiny island, and in a letter to friends, Mrs. Davis said they "nearly went mad. Our first reaction was to wash ourselves, the first bath in 26 days. We drank a toast to the destruction of the Roaring 40's, then promptly collapsed with the sudden reaction to the terrors we had been through...
...judge went on to describe her subsequent marriage, her husband's meteoric career and her own sense of inadequacy as he forged ahead. "You drank too much coffee? You smoked too many cigarettes? You made abusive scenes, scenes of jealousy?" "Not true, monsieur," sobbed Yvonne...
...condensed milk to a sick native out of an old stone cup she has dug up and failed to destroy. The native vaults out of bed shouting: "She is here! The Great Breast Mother of the World is here!" The cup, it seems, is the one from which Rahabaat drank and drew power; and Irma Barnfield fits the legend of the virgin goddess whose coming will insure October Island a millennium of peace and plenty. In no time, a mass conversion to Christianity takes place, but the natives insist on added sacraments. Irma must periodically spoon out milk from...
...Example. In Sioux Falls, S.Dak., charged with disturbing the peace, Robert Rehfeldt was fined $10 when he told the court that he only drank three beers and was "sober as a judge...