Word: drinked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stepped into his office at the Treasury one morning last week, "is in honor of two years of Repeal. I think we have every reason to be moderately satisfied with the results."One result was that, on Repeal's second birthday, a citizen could buy himself a drink of hard liquor across a bar in 28 States and the District of Columbia. Only one State is wholly dry-Alabama. The Federal Government had during the past fiscal year taken in $411,000,000 in liquor taxes. The States had collected many millions more. Consumption was only...
Unfortunately, drinking to excess on the part of many students exists throughout the entire college picture. While a majority of the students in college may "only touch a drop now and then," those who drink "in earnest" are numerous enough to seriously hamper and endanger the lives of their fellows...
Outright prohibition of liquor by college authorities is not the answer to this problem. If students cannot be kept from drinking, they should at least know HOW to drink. Educating the students to proper ways of drinking may become the eventual solution. If all other methods fail, it will not do any harm to try this. Syracuse Daily Orange...
...Mallarmé, Rodin, Verlaine, Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt. Taine and Renan were then still alive, Zola and Anatole France were prominent figures, but the young Englishmen were most inspired by Verlaine, who greeted them jovially, talked poetry to them, and spent his last two francs to buy them a drink of rum. Readers of From Rousseau to Proust can determine how stimulating these international contacts were from the occasional reminiscences that figure in other essays in the book. Although it is in general an attempt to trace the tradition that Rousseau started through French literature, it is primarily of value...
...soda but the scotch was still being ordered from a dealer in Harvard Square and consumed, case after case, as fast as it was delivered. By five there was no more good scotch in Harvard Square, and you know those Harvard boys, they just will not drink poor scotch. So they ordered a couple of gallons of gin. Soon that was gone too. One of the tutors suggested draining the alcohol out of his radiator, but there was a Radcliffe girl there who didn't like straight alcohol, and threatened to put on her overshoes and go home if they...