Word: drinked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short time ago TIME [June 29] had a full-page ad of sloe gin. At 84 years of age I thought something slow would about fit me, so I bought a bottle. Naturally I took a drink. It tasted so good, I took another. It was so fine, I called in a friend and we had a couple more. Pretty soon it began to show its speed...
...General" Ottinger when he turned up one night last week to speak at the Republican Club of Astoria. L. I. Presumably repeating a conversation with the nominee, he croaked: "Governor Landon believes prohibition is a State and not a National issue. Alf M. Landon may not take a drink in a Dry State but he will in a Wet State...
...beauties wobbled down the boardwalk in a bicycle parade, saw baby-faced Phyllis Dobson ("Miss California") win a trophy for being "the best looking girl on a bicycle." In the three "talent" competitions, rangy Gloria LeVinge ("Miss Birmingham") was one of the three winners. Warned by officials not to drink, smoke or speak to strangers, chaperoned by watchful relatives, the contestants modeled clothes at a fashion show, minced about in 300 expensive evening gowns, heard slinky Arlene Causey, 18 ("Miss Cook County, Ill.."), named the best-looking girl in clothes...
...England, as to whether I think at all so as you would notice it, my answer is that you don't give a fellow time for such spare time pursuits as thought. He gets off a boat and is met by a hospitable American who once had a drink with him perhaps. The hospitable American takes him to a party where he meets about thirty more H. A.'s. They find out where he is staying (if he has found out himself) and from then on it is just "madder music and stronger wine" until he is carried...
...Merrill, who has flown 2,000,000 miles without injury, last year made news by flying a plane from the U. S. to Chile to aid the overpublicized search for Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth (TIME, Jan. 27). A slight. 39-year-old bachelor. Pilot Merrill does not smoke or drink but has a weakness for perfume. When flying, he usually has a vial of Surrender or Evening in Paris in his pocket, steals an occasional sniff. Singer Richman paid him a reputed $25,000 to go on the trip to England, announced it would be a round-trip affair with only...