Word: drinked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week finished widening the main street of Forest Hills, L. I., home of U. S. championship tennis. So surprised, pleased, grateful were 125 merchants by the speed and skill with which the work was done, that they invited the 100-odd workers to eat cold cuts, drink beer at a local roof garden...
Five hours' sleep are enough for him. In the evenings he reads voraciously-classics, new books, magazines, newspapers -and goes to bed after midnight. He smokes pipes, cigars, cigarets, occasionally takes a drink. Sometimes he gives up smoking for the sake of his health, which is excellent, but his family soon persuades him to start again for the sake of his temper, which is excellent when he has something to smoke. On the radio he listens to practically nothing except Comedian Eddie Cantor...
...less than Bea-Lillie, drollness of Luella Gear; the Gallic, if less than Maurice-Chevalier, charm of Jean Sablon; the dazed, middle-aged prankishness of Bobby Clark ("I'm Robert the Roue of Reading, Pa."); the borderline sanity of Abbott & Costello; the magic bartending of "Think a Drink" Hoffman, who turns water into not only wine, but dry Martinis, Pink Ladys and piping hot coffee...
...Fred Waring is trim, clear-blue-eyed, looks nearer 30. In his course as a musical businessman he has picked up two subsidiaries, Words & Music Inc., and a $250,000 venture in an electric drink and food mixer he thought up two years ago. The Waring mixer in its first year and a half sold 60,000, is still going strong...
...only is this bounder "minus 14 years and 7 months old" but he is also "steadily going backwards." This astounding phenomenon can be accomplished only by averaging better than one drink every 25 minutes...