Word: drinked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...married Carmen Polo, daughter of a wealthy Oviedo merchant, and His Majesty King Alfonso sent a personal representative to the wedding. They have one daughter Carmencita, now 10, who busies herself with well-photographed good works around Burgos. Strange for a Spanish officer, he is said neither to drink nor smoke. Odder still, he is pictured as very much the family man. A typical dictator has no time for, and little interest in, family life...
Surveying him suspiciously, the bartender withdrew the drink farther and farther from reach. "You study, doncha? That's enough...
...proctor steadied himself for the last effort. His tongue moved and seemed to rub the inside of a clay bowl. "My God," he cried, "professors study, and don't tell me they can't buy a drink...
...prosperous Manhattan businessman and president of the New York Board of Education, Harris took suddenly to drink. Two years later, disgraced, he sailed for the Far East, became one of the most popular traders on the China Coast. He got the consular job because few wanted it, and because he was a bachelor-the Japanese wanted no foreign women in Japan...
...Jennie says she won't marry a man who has sworn at her; mother, father and the doctor's friend act as peacemakers; the Confederate veterans assemble to take part in the ceremony; the minister refuses to have Confederate flags in the church; the groom begins to drink; when the time comes Jennie goes to the altar, just as everyone knew she would...