Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...overlook the increased efficiency of all classes which is sure to result from the abolition of the liquor business. When Lloyd George made his famous statement: "We are fighting Germany, Austria, and Drink, and so far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is Drink," he was thinking of the slowing-down of the production of munitions by the drunkenness of the workman. America, too, has drunken workmen, and they should be made sober. Moreover, the cost of food is, and will be, very great, so that no man should be permitted to spend on liquor...
Then lift the glass and drink it down...
...accent contrasted excellently with the suave Bart who never finds himself at a loss no matter how trying the situation. Peter furnishes one of the best moments in the play with his comments at the society reception where he is an extra waiter, with his remarks of "have a drink, lady?" and "wot am I doing, oh, picking up the empties...
...proverbial "typical Morosco cast" certainly lives up to its name: Trixie Friganza is her own breezy, slangy, domineering self; Charles Ruggles is kept busy pacifying his different lady loves; Herbert Corthell does well in the rather thankless part of the philandering, drink-addicted husband; Dorothy Webb, dainty, lively, and vivacious, frolics through the piece as the heroine should; while the plump Lecia Lucay, the "baby grand," is the one principal blessed with a really fine voice...
...shouted the fiery evangelist, "that we can't create a desire if it isn't there. A red-headed kid with a stone bruise on each heel can ride a Kentucky thoroughbred to water, but a college professor with mutton-chop whiskers and 49 diplomas can't make him drink...