Word: drinked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinner last week at 69 Eaton Square, London, the home of former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, now Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, went His Majesty King George VI. Tory that he is, Earl Baldwin invited to eat, drink and smoke informally with His Majesty eight Laborite and Liberal leaders who had never before met the King. Some thought that Earl Baldwin, privately vehemently critical of the Chamberlain Government, was hatching a palace plot against the Prime Minister. Better explanation: the King, symbol of the nation, was simply making friends with men who might be needed in a crisis. This could...
...first time in its twelve years of existence the Department of Naval Sciences and Tactics held a stag social at the Boston Yacht Club on Rowes Wharf, where 100 future ensigns and their officers gathered last night. Steak, cocktails, entertainment's, and "all the beer the boys could drink" featured the evening...
...There is also," DeSilva states, "not much difference in the incidence of alcoholism between the man in his forties and the man in his twenties and thirties. The reason more drunken drivers in their forties are detected is that more persons drink in their forties than at any other...
...McAdam's pretty daughter (his son has also been discarded) as well as the coveted cup. At times Will Fyffe's characterization of the vicious drunkard is superlative, but at other times--notably when he hands the precious cup over to Moore casually, as if it were a drink of scotch--it is very weak. The celebrated race is well-handled, and portrays the extraordinary intelligence of the shepherd dogs, but even here Wull loses only because his master has taken one drink too many, and not because Bob is the superior strategist. In place of the original author...
...Ramadan, the month in which the Koran was revealed, and in the hill station of Kanwali. A battalion of the King-Emperor's Indian soldiers were observing Mohammed's strict law. During Ramadan, it is written, a Moslem must not enjoy the pleasures of food, drink, tobacco and women from that time in the morning when a white thread can be distinguished from a black one, until the hour of the evening when neither can be seen...