Word: drinked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...utilities, underwriters and businessmen on their inventories (see p. 53). Meanwhile, what U. S. Business was inclined to consider the most helpful move of the week was not the Administration's effort to pour water into the well but a Congressional effort to give thirsty Capital a drink from its own spring-by modifying taxes (see below...
...matter for regret that Herr Hitler is a man of such chilly personal correctitude!" the House of Commons was told in an impassioned speech last week by warm, beef-eating, virile Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson, M. P., Conservative. "If he would smoke, eat and drink, Hitler might be more human and less dangerous. He might, like other dictators, be more anxious to take another person's concubine rather than their country! Instead, he is a great big bully in Europe...
...narrowly escaped hanging by his own men for killing a fellow soldier, fathered 19 children by two wives, died violently by ambush when he was past 80. As an old man, Grandpa Stuart scandalized a spiritualist meeting by yelling: "Come out, all you dead babies and have a drink on old Mitch Stuart...
When the late Charles Flandrau (Viva Mexico!) was a star Saturday Evening Post contributor 40 years ago, one thing mightily depressed him. That was the changes that took place in his stories when they appeared in print. If he gave one of his characters a highball, the drink became a glass of lemonade. In those days a Post character might kill Indians, but he could not smoke a cigaret. Last week a collection of 22 stories chosen from the 234 published in last year's Saturday Evening Post revealed how greatly they had changed since that genteel period. Post...
...this morning, the dimpled darling that these great United States have temporarily taken into their hearts. At first we couldn't see what they were raving about. She isn't like most girls. She doesn't dress smartly or tell dirty jokes the way debutantes do; she doesn't drink or do the Big Apple. She isn't even beautiful; we spent two days trying to discover if she used make-up. She didn...