Word: drank
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...them, and about 75 other families of the same name, live in Walldorf, West Germany. They were the ones fur-trading Millionaire John Jacob Astor left behind to go to America in 1783. And on the 200th birthday of "the great Dollarmacher," the Walldorfers threw a week-long party, drank beer, and recalled the town legend of how old John Jacob arrived for his one return visit: he was wearing humble clothes and was scorned as a failure, whereupon he stormed out of town to return riding in an elegant landau attended by a huge staff of servants...
...hand were 2,000 Balliol graduates (Prime Minister Macmillan excused himself to dine with J.F.K.) from Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath to King Olaf of Norway and Boston Financier William Appleton Coolidge. Whether or not Balliol really was 700-an agreed age more than a historic fact-they cheerily drank the ancient toast, Floreat dornus de Balliolo, meaning roughly, boola, boola Balliol...
...appalled by the drinking that's going on among teenagers. Please, please tell them that to be sophisticated, to show that you've been places, you don't have to drink. The girl that does will lose her figure, face and looks. Mr. Kennedy never drank before making an important business decision. We were very fortunate in our family. My husband promised each of our children $1,000 if they did not smoke or drink until they were 21. The oldest boys, Joe Jr. and Jack, went through with it and the girls followed...
...Rose is not exactly right. Jack actually returned the $1,000. His explanation: "I drank some beer...
Primal Gloom. He can drink almost anyone under the table too. When Burton's emotional life was particularly eruptive one day earlier this month, he drank half a gallon of cognac, being careful not to let it interfere with his work before the cameras in a new picture called The VIPs. His heroes are Scofield, Olivier, Gielgud, Alec Guinness?and a Lancastrian he once met who could down twelve pints of beer while Big Ben was announcing midnight. "I am one of the few people I know," says Burton, "who drinks only when he works." And this is true. Between...