Word: drinker
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...also pointed out that not even the chronic drinker necessarily becomes an alcoholic-"there are millions of regular drinkers who aren't and won't become alcoholics...
Everyone on his Yale staff drank at least a little, Bacon pointed out. "No one on the staff," he said. "Is an extreme teetotaler or an extreme drinker...
...comment on reports that the Smoker was trying to get someone from the burlesque. But he said that it was not untrue that they were looking for female entertainment. He added that, among other features at this year's affair, a prize will be given to the best beer drinker...
Almost equally memorable was the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln and Vice President Andrew Johnson in 1865. Johnson had just got through an attack of typhoid fever and, though a light drinker, he fortified himself with some brandy, chased by several slugs of whisky. When his turn came to take the oath, he stood up, weaving slightly, and made an unscheduled but extremely fiery speech ("Humble as I am, plebeian as I may be deemed, permit me in the presence of this brilliant assemblage . . ."). "Senators on the Republican side." reported the New York World, "began to hide their heads." Notables tugged...
While in prison he wrote The Drinker, camouflaging the book by strewing its sentences through a bulky nonsense novel. Unscrambled after Fallada's death in 1947, this novel adds little to his reputation, but its suspiciously autobiographical scent and its candid odor of damnation suggest the careful note-taking of a house guest in Hell...