Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bank Exchange there was a high mahogany bar, its top worn smooth, it was said, by the sleeves of Mark Twain, Bret Harte and others whose tongues and voices were loosened and made eloquent by that ambrosial drink...
Like Birds. One such "little thing" in Bishop's new show was a picture of a girl bending to drink from a fountain in Union Square. "I've got pages & pages of sketches of men and girls drinking out of that fountain," she says. "You know, most people lift one leg when they drink. Some put their hands behind them. Others embrace the bowl. But it's so quick and nice - nice-like birds, they drink and fly away - and I have a devil of a time. You could easily pose a person there, of course...
...first day at the typewriter, after working for an hour, he got the old terrifying constriction in his chest and the pain in his left arm. He called to his wife Eva, who brought him a glass of brandy and promised to call the doctor. After a second drink she handed him a mirror, showed him that his lips were not blue, as they had been in his original attack. Then Mrs. Harrison, a schoolteacher who has learned practical psychology by handling 4-B children, confessed that she had only pretended to call the doctor. Harrison now recognizes...
...Inspector Lee R. Pennington, who investigates bank frauds. Addressing a conference of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks in Washington, Pennington said that most of last year's frauds (total lost: $3,000,000) were traceable to some fairly common human failings: gambling, drink, women. High living, big debts, bad business management were also to blame, and, in the case of thefts by women...
...over something-a kind of sadness, loneliness in a deathly quiet . . . It produced a heartache and a sense of exile." Every country child in the old days saw coyotes, heard them, hunted them, listened to stories about them, perhaps tried the improbable or near-impossible job of taming one. "Drink your milk," said mothers to their children, "or the old coyote will...