Word: drinked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million times to become a 7-pound, 2O-inch baby at birth. It is during the first two months of that marvelous multiplication that malformations generally develop. Hence the pregnant woman must at that time take extraordinary care to avoid mental, emotional or physical shocks. She should drink a great deal of water. Well-nourished wealthy women who do no physical work produce bigger babies than poor working women...
...became a cattle drover, later a cattle trader. Sharp-witted, grasping, unscrupulous, he was credited with inventing the "watering" of stock. This trick to up the weight of cattle just before a sale consisted of feeding the animals salt and then giving them all the water they could drink...
...taxicabs, selling gowns and keeping track of complicated collections of identification papers, a favorite occupation of "white" Russians is to run night clubs. In Manhattan last week was opened a new cabaret, La Maisonette Russe at the Hotel St. Regis. Though the usual socialites and columnists were present to drink vodka and listen to gypsy music, the religious editors of the town, such as Rachel McDowell of the Times and Dr. W. A. Nichols of the World-Telegram, did not show up. Their presence would not have been extraordinary because La Maisonette Russe was the first night club...
...greatest tragedies. Aeschylus, Poe and Coleridge are only a few of those who underwent rigorous military training, thus it secus as though a sound mind and a sound body must go together to produce great works. Their failures began when Coleridge took to narcotics, when Stephen Foster took to drink, or when Marc Antony took to women...
...Coca-Cola Co. Directors voted to split their stock four for one. The world's biggest maker of a 5? trademarked drink increased its profits 32% in the first year of Repeal, its stock now ranking as the highest-priced active industrial issue on the New York Stock Exchange ($244). One reason: cheap sugar. In Coca-Cola economy a 1? change in sugar prices amounts to $1.50 per share of Coca-Cola's old stock...