Word: drank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bridle path, the Shoreham's sandy-colored brick looming above the trees. "When I was Gover nor they asked me if Winston Churchill could come down and visit. He wanted to see the battlefields. The only trouble was that when he got there, they told me he drank a quart of brandy a day. It was strict Prohibition, and I never had al lowed any in the mansion. I called up a fellow who I thought might be able to get it and said, 'John, I'm in a hell of a fix. I need...
Before spry old Busta went off to Montego Bay, where he drank champagne, danced the twist and played the banjo at an all-night post-independence bash, he made it clear that Jamaica will remain in the orbit of the free world. "We are pro-American," he said staunchly. But he ducked questions about possible trade and diplomatic relations with Cuba, only 90 miles to the north. Perhaps he had in mind an old Jamaican proverb: "No cuss alligator' long mout' till you cross riber...
World War II also made another marked change in Webb's life. He was laid up with something the Army diagnosed as flu, and a doctor was routinely taking his personal history. As Webb tells it: "When I told him I drank from ten to 20 bourbons a day, he damn near dropped his teeth. He said I ought to cut down, but I told him I'd damn well quit. And I did. Not another drop of whisky has passed my lips since that day. All that time I spent drinking, I could now spend working...
Laissez-Faire Marriage. William Lamb, Lord Melbourne, was born to aristocratic ease. He belonged to the great Whig dynasty, whose members "took on the task of directing England's destinies with the same self-confident vigour that they drank and diced." Lamb was never certain who his father was because, as he put it, his mother "was not chaste." But he grew up with a sense of security in his close-knit, comfortable family, early developed a spirit of reasonableness. He fled his first fistfight at Eton with no sense of shame: "If I found I could not lick...
...didn't. Oscar says to me. he says 'What do people do with dead bodies?' " Still, she is a properly brought up little girl, and she ends every chapter with a prayer. The one that closes the chapter about her garden party (at which the bishop drank a triple julep and she danced with some little colored boys) goes like this: "Oh ye Sun and Moon, oh ye beans and roses, oh ye jigs and juleps. Bless ye the Lord. Praise Him and Magnify Him Forever. Amen...