Word: drinked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...station name in Cyrillic and Latin script!) a Yugoslavian soldier boards the train and inexcusably in the roughest way, with no explanations, arrests the two Americans and the Slav. ... In the middle of the room officers are sitting around a large table eating. They throw bones on the floor, drink wine and lick their fingers! This abominable scene filled the American public with wonder and at the time caused merriment and hilarity. The officers speak half Serbian and half English! . . . The fugitives travel by automobile toward Belgrade. On the way they see a company of Yugoslavian troops approaching. The chauffeur...
...lets his patients who like alcohol drink it moderately, for its soothing and relaxing effects. Dr. Brooks thinks that the tendency to suffer angina pectoris is hereditary. Said he: "It would not be wise to advise marrying among individuals with angina pectoris...
...Squire Cribbs (snarled by James Wood from behind the blackest of moustaches) come to early fruition as the supple husband is delivered into the power of Demon Rum. Lower and lower sinks our here until the very meanest of New York's gutters will no longer accept his drink-rotted carcass. Honest Will Dowton sticks by him and appears at opportune moments to save him from the prison cell toward which the wretch of a Squire is directing his staggering steps. Will has a half-witted sister (played by a well-known campus character under the Puritan alias of Penny...
...taper, tall enough to burn for 24 hours, flickers in memory of the dead. The pious abstain from food, drink and all other gratifications of material desires, from one sunset until three stars may be seen in the heavens the following night. God is balancing his books for the year. In the home it is well to examine one's soul; in the synagog to chant "Kol Nidre" petitioning forgiveness for vows made and inadvertently unfulfilled...
...Mclntyre handed the President a document that amused him; he shot back a question; perused the paper; pursed his lips; stopped to slake his thirst with a drink of water; wiped his mouth with a handkerchief from his side pocket; finished reading; squiggled a signature. His desk was clear. Then, he straightened up and turned on his charm to greet Ambassador Oswaldo Aranha (a great Roosevelt admirer) who arrived accompanied by Brazil's Minister of Finance, Arthur Souza Costa. The President smiled his most charming smile as he took Senhor Souza Costa's hand. Then the agreement...