Word: drinker
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What is a Heavy Drinker...
...fisted drinker who holds his liquor very well, McCarthy does not smoke. He detests cigars. Joe always begins a lunch or dinner speech by coughing raucously into his fist, saying: "Before I begin [cough-cough], I want to ask So & So [cough-cough] just what he has been smoking. It reminds me of my days back on the farm." This serves a double purpose: it gets a laugh, and all head-table smokers stub out their cigars...
...drinker, and I don't approve of drunkenness. I also don't approve of people who blacken the memories of 3,000 dead men who are not able to speak for themselves. Sunday morning is a day when things are allowed to ease off, in the Army, at least. The Japs had that in mind. But in spite of their well-planned action, there were a lot of men who fought back, surprised...
...assigned to decorate the camp church's interior. He did the job in tempera, and claims that he completed a normal two years' work in four months, egged on by two Franciscan friars who kept him well fueled with cognac and whisky. (Pagliacci, a two-fisted drinker, says he does his best painting when slightly tiddly...
...This individual," says Williams, "probably constitutes the first case on record in which an alcoholic has become a moderate drinker." There were others among the few alcoholics treated with vitamins by the time Williams wrote his book. Since then, doctors at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital have tested the method with 85 alcoholics, giving some of them dummy capsules to rule out the psychological factor, and report at least one-third better results in the vitamin-treated cases...