Word: drinked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DEAD DON'T CARE-Jonathan Latimer-Crime Club ($2). Two private investigators who like to drink double triple Scotches manage between drinks to solve a kidnapping, a shooting and a poisoning on a Florida estate. In spots very funny; very, very tough throughout. Readers with weak stomachs had better not apply. A condensed version appeared serially in Collier's under the title A Queen's Ransom...
...There is in France none of that penury and want and none of that forced labor which is to be found under the surface of the totalitarian countries. There are very few people in France who do not eat and drink well. There are still very few who do not manage to live within their incomes and save something...
...doubt you have heard of me and my great work in the cause of temperance. For several years I have been travelling about the country on the lecture platform. You may even be familiar with some of my better known talks, such as "Down With Drink," "Rum and Rebellion," and "Taking the B Out of Booze...
...Unfortunately, during the past summer, poor Oscar passed to his doom. I wonder if you could help me find some Harvard student to accompany me on my spring tour to replace poor Oscar, as I have heard on good information that Harvard students are possessed with the devil of drink. Hopefully yours, Rev. Jonah M. Wilde...
...objection to the charges hurled is of a more fundamental type. Although held in a college dormitory, this was a private party, and as such its actions were not open to public censure. If--and this of course is purely hypothetical--Radcliffe girls have stooped so low as to drink sherry at times, that is their own private problem, provided there are no college rules to the contrary. No one seems to care what a Harvard student drinks, or where. Thus it seems odd, even sad, that Radcliffe morals and stomachs should be valued so much more highly, particularly when...