Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knowledgeably as they wandered about the suite. But Dennis kept his glass filled with Seven-Up and clucked paternally at his younger brother, who left early to go to the bar in the lobby. When Dennis offered us Cokes, he apologized and explained again that he doesn't drink. "I can't afford to," he says, "with everything that's wrong with me, I'd be dead in a year." Bob Dylan, Dennis insists, writes "his meaningless songs when he's high. 'Puff the Magic Dragon' is about pot, you know? Lived by the sea--that's cocaine, you know...
...about some older writers on the Trib, he says, "They say those guys get paid off, but that's not it. They're old. They lose perspective. They get strangled synapses in the brain." Discussing one recent Tribune features star who got sacked, Wolfe laments, "He had a rugged drinking problem... Old men can't take that. Young men drink. Yes." Sometimes he talks rather wildly about looking forward to growing old, "Old men can really cut loose. You should see those Old White Russian Aristocrats at any Salvadore Dali opening. Can they dress. WOW!" But it doesn't work...
...meat market donated a whole pig to a neighboring convent, thus providing everybody for blocks around with a snack of roast pork. Manhattan's Four Seasons Restaurant, where prices are rarely mentioned because so few would believe them, dispensed soup free of charge; at "21," where the only drink on the house is water, they passed out steak sandwiches and free libations without limit...
...when he entered the room. He was a dropper of names and a picker of brains whom a friend once proposed for the egomania championship of the world. Somewhat muffled in this irritatingly bland and overextended biography by The New Yorker's E. J. Kahn Jr. (The Big Drink; A Reporter Here and There], the late Herbert Bayard Swope nevertheless emerges as a personality of extravagant proportions...
...rest was primarily the colonel's own leering, impertinent gossip. ("Mr. Henry Sloane has been looked upon as a complacent husband who wore his horns too publicly." "Miss Van Alen suffers from some kind of throat trouble-she cannot go more than half an hour without a drink...