Word: drinkers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time full of wile and guile. Before the revolution he was remembered in his village as an accomplished performer on the Ukrainian flute, the town's best dancer of the gopak (hearing of this, Stalin once ordered him to dance the gopak; he did), and a prodigious drinker of yorsh (a potent mass boilermaker made of six pints of beer to iV pints of vodka). Born in a reed-and-mud hut, the son of a miner, he had taught himself to read, worked as a pipe fitter. In bell-bottomed pants and a grey wool cap, Sunday...
...LION AND THE THRONE (652 pp.) -Catherine Drinker Bowen-Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...legal historian: "What Shakespeare has been to literature, what Bacon nas been to philosophy, what the translators of the Authorized Version of the Bible have been to religion, Coke has been to the public and private law of England." What goes for English law goes for American, too. Catherine Drinker Bowen, who wrote about lawyer-patriots before (Yankee from Olympus, featuring Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and John Adams and the American Revolution), has produced an outstanding biography of Sir Edward Coke-it appeared briefly on the bestseller lists-in which greatness of personal achievement is framed in a superb setting...
...sight of the dying man painting her, was done in his characteristic arabesque style. By the time he painted this picture, "Modi" no longer had the strength to stagger around Paris with Utrillo. each toasting the other as "the greatest painter in the world" and "the greatest drinker." A few months after he finished the picture the painters, sculptors, poets and models of Montmartre and Montparnasse gathered for his funeral, and an enormous cortege solemnly followed the hearse to the cemetery. All along the road the same policemen who had arrested the gay and irresponsible Modi with such alarming regularity...
...corsage, she sported a miniature display of the medals that she won as a WAC in World War II. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who does not hold with such flossy doings, hovered so long behind the punch bowl that a fellow finally offered him a cupful. Scotch-Drinker Mr. Sam was incredulous: "Are you serious?" he asked. This was the last chance this year to invite Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, and Ike pointedly passed it up. The only Congressman so neglected, Joe allowed that he didn't want to go to that old party anyhow...