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...ever you come to New Haven; you must come over for dinner. I do not care for stimulants as a rule--indeed I rarely touch them--but this sheems to have hit the spot. My friends tell me I haave all the qualities of a good drinker but then you know the things your friends will tell...

Author: By Williams LION Whelps, | Title: THE CRIME | 11/18/1927 | See Source »

...thing it was not necessary to sneak an indiscretion out of Mr. Farrell's ken. No drinker himself, he tolerates another man's vices and pleasures. He talks little, likes to study scholarly volumes, enjoys boating; but imposes none of his pleasures on others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Foreign Traders | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

Laborite Tom Shaw (interjecting) : "I may say, as the Secretary of State for India once said, in one of his sober moments?" (Pandemonium, furious shouts from friends of the Secretary, the Earl of Birkenhead, a discriminating, not a swizzling drinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Act II | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...Japan the new Premier enjoys the reputation of a valiant, discriminating drinker, and a gentleman of perfect decorum in his frequent visits to geisha-houses. On one such occasion he became aware during the night that he had carelessly set the establishment on fire. No poltroon, he sobered instantly, ordered the geisha girls out into the street, organized the men-servants to carry out furniture and extinguish the fire, paid openhandedly for the damage he had wrought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: JAPAN New Cabinet | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...Manhattan Sir Charles Frederick beamed sunnily. His face is blocky, cheery as a well-fed sea-lion. To admiring newspapermen he at once offered $500 for the picture of the oldest tea drinker in the U. S. He wants to compare that face with the face of Turk Zaro Agha, 154, oldest tea drinker in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tittle-Tattle | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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