Word: drinked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adolescent comments on the turbulent life aboard the Yukoner. Fights and uproar left young Walter unmoved. "When I came to Alaska," he wrote in his diary, between a discussion of the price of liquor and a quotation from Longfellow, "I made a resolution that I would never take a drink of liquor or ever admit . . . that everything was not all right...
Play: The commission found even youth's fun depressing. The reason: youth hunts fun mostly alone or in pairs instead of in groups. About one-half the boys and girls drink. One boy in eight spends most of his free time doing nothing...
...result a future that is glorious and prosperous. Duce. just as you and your people have remained true to your friendship in the decisive days, so I, too, and my people are ready to manifest the same friendship to Italy in difficult times. Duce. I raise my glass and drink to your health, to the happiness and greatness of the Italian people and to our immutable friendship...
Composer Davis takes her new career as a serious composer seriously. Out of bed at 7:30 to get the children off to school, she is at her composing by 10. After three or four hours of steady work, she goes off to play golf, drink tea, cocktails, attend a concert. Husband Meyer she sees only intermittently because he is always on the road with one of his bands. "Isn't that goofy?" asks Composer Davis...
Speaking at a London literary luncheon, Very Rev. William Ralph Inge, longtime (1911-34) "Gloomy Dean" of St. Paul's Cathedral, made some prophecies about dictionaries of the future. Under "negus," said he, one might soon expect to find "1. A drink composed of wine, water and sugar. 2. See Victor Emmanuel. In the same way, in the next edition, you may see: Democracy-obsolete form of government still practiced in North America. See dictator." In New Haven, Conn., Yale Freshman William Eldred Jackson, only son of U. S. Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson, was arrested for pulling down...