Word: drinked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Dr. Nicoll to astounded reporters: "All the stitches have been absorbed into the heart tissue and cannot possibly cause any trouble. His diet ... is carefully regulated to build up red blood corpuscles. He isn't allowed to smoke or drink, though he is permitted to walk upstairs and do other things which persons with weak hearts should not do." Furthermore, he added, the 27-year-old patrolman has excellent chances for long life. Said jubilant William Manning: "I can hardly wait to get back on my beat. I drive my own car . . . and even play a little ball...
...Michigan's Mark McKee, Boston's William Doyle. Long before the greying, balding boys of the Legion assemble for their yearly carnival, The Kingmakers settle policy, pick a National Commander to explain and defend their policy. Last week in Los Angeles, where 130,000 Legionnaires went to drink and frolic this year, The Kingmakers worked with extraordinary dispatch, got their work done before the convention convened, averted the floor fights which usually attend their nominating maneuvers...
...skier and climber, lets him work 20 hours a day for weeks at a stretch. His shock of water-spaniel hair is greying but he still looks young at 37. Coffee with lots of sugar instead of alcohol for a bracer is one of his rules, though he does drink sociably. He doesn't smoke. Girls have no part in his life, or he successfully conceals the fact. Of his secretary, pretty, red-headed Peggy Dowd with sparkling blue eyes, he says. "God bless her, she's a wonder!" because she can match his working pace...
...miles; how the mayor of Pudsey sent him a telegram after every 50 runs; how, when he surpassed Don Bradman's record, the game was interrupted, all the players shook his hand, a waiter in tails and white tie scampered onto the field with a drink of lemonade, 30,000 spectators rose as one and sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow...
Trinidad, British island off the northeast coast of South America, is a hot mixture of bloods, French, Spanish, Negro, Carib, Hindu, Chinese. Once a year, on the two days before Lent, Trinidad goes crazy with a carnival of rum-drinking, parades, musicmaking, mummery-blacks painted or masked as whites, whites as blacks. During carnival, Trinidad characters bearing such names as The Lion, Atilla the Hun, The Caresser, The Growler live high and merrily. They are the Calypsonians of the island, who compose, play and sing the Trinidad music known as Calypso.* Their songs, whose jerky rhythms and insinuating tunes suggest...