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...harsh but just advocate of discipline, he imposed an iron discipline on himself. A drinker of strong spirits, he swore off hard liquor when war came, would sometimes stretch a glass of beer through a whole evening. In Washington, he lived aboard a ship in the Anacostia River instead of in comfortable quarters with his family, worked hard, savage hours in a small, Spartan office in the Navy Building. He took nonsense from no one, not even his commander in chief, became known as one of the few men in the Government who would resist the charms of Franklin Roosevelt...
...warning culminated a ten-day "blitz" on the Harvard Square area which started a week ago Friday. On that day, the ABCC visited several bars to check on alleged violations. In each case the technique was the same: a man in street clothes would approach a young-looking drinker, show his credentials, and demand proof of age. If the drinker turned out to be under age, the violation and warn him against future violations...
...with a flourish, disdains tobacco and sniffs at sports. Bradley is a roly-poly (5 ft. 6 in., 160 Ibs.) Briton who arrived in the U.S. at the age of seven, a casual dresser who often appears in mismatched pants and coat, a keen southpaw golfer and a Scotch drinker...
Because of an old wound, Terrorist Lo cannot smile, but only grimace, and he speaks through clenched teeth out of the corner of his mouth. A chain smoker, heavy drinker and woman chaser, Lo has made a unique contribution to Marxist dialectics: he invented "the deviation of boundless magnanimity" (i.e., being too soft on counter-revolutionaries), a deviation which had to be "discovered and resolutely corrected." Though now a full general and recently decorated, Lo still lacks high party rating (he is one of 27 alternates of the Central Committee), and Mao still keeps much of the secret political...
...word "scofflaw" was invented in 1924 after Delcevare King, an ardent prohibitionist of Quincy, Mass, offered a prize of $200 for the best word to apply to "the lawless drinker to stab awake his conscience." Submitted by both Henry Irving Shaw of Shawsheen Village, Mass, and Miss Kate L. Butler of Dorchester, Mass, "scofflaw" was adjudged the best of more than 25,000 entries...