Word: drank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Union Leader has refused to run advertisements for the biography. It is no secret around New Hampshire that Cash once had a drinking problem and was dismissed by the Union Leader in 1959. "Nobody ever drank more than Kevin-he was a real newspaperman," says Jimmy Breslin, an old colleague from Cash's Herald Tribune days, who encouraged him in the project. Cash readily admits that he was fired-for showing up drunk to cover a golf match -but swears he has not had a drink in two years. Says he: "I gave up everything for this. I thought...
...still alive to this very day and chewing bread." Many stories end with a hint by the storyteller that he is hungry and thirsty after his labors. "There's a tale for you and a crock of butter for me" ... "I was at their wedding and drank beer and wine: it ran down my mustache but did not go into my mouth" ... "And the knight married the princess Paliusha and gave a most wonderful feast. I dined and drank mead with them, and their cabbage was toothsome. Even now I could eat some!" The bards, bless them, deserved...
...Emperor's appetite for eminence, the authors write: "History was for him, as for Carlyle, a worship and rosary of heroes, especially those who guided na tions or molded empires. He loved Plutarch even more than Euclid; he breathed the passions of those ancient patriots, he drank the blood of those his toric battles...
...visit after retiring from politics. Davies impishly served the teetotaling former President tokay wine, while assuring him that it was nonalcoholic. "He started talking at dinner, and kept on drinking the tokay," she recalled. Said the not-so-silent Cal: "Best darned nonalcoholic drink I ever drank in my life...
Some things, however, must change. Southside Johnny recalls that after Born to Run was released, "we had a party at one of the band members' houses. It was like old times. We drank and listened to old Sam and Dave albums. Then someone said my car had a flat tire. I went outside to check, and sitting in the street were all these people waiting to get a glimpse of Brucie, just sitting under the streetlights, not saying anything. I got nervous and went back inside...