Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Private Noel Moncaster, of the Royal Pioneer Corps stationed at Luneburg, had already had a drink or two too many when he spotted a seductive fraulein on a street corner. She invited him to a party and Noel accepted. That was in May 1947. Last week, lighter by 35 Ibs. and a good deal sadder & wiser, Private Moncaster reported back to British regimental headquarters in Berlin, to explain his long absence; the "party" had lasted two years and seven months...
...four cartoon suggestions (one: "Now, please bear in mind that I am not Ingrid Bergman"-see cut), we asked her to meet us for cocktails . . . We found her to be shy, modest, thoroughly affable, and reminiscent of her women . . . When we asked her what she'd like to drink, she said: "A glass of iced tea. Hard liquor makes...
...Square merchants just don't care. George O'Brien of the Harvard Provision Company said yesterday that "it won't make any different to us. Students drink as much when there isn't a football game as they do when there...
...wouldn't expect Boston's Latin Quarter to be the scene of a revolutionary experiment in show business. Yet that night club is currently initiating a complete musical revue, much like the Broadway product--and this in the same room where you can eat a wiener schnitzel and drink an African Zombie. At 8:30 and 11:30 p.m. the nitery's green-vested waiters clear the dessert dishes and fill the water glasses; the lights dim, and the stage at one end of the room becomes the center of interest for the next hour, as a group of young...
...Hollywood, the drinking of bottled water has become a mark of class; only such lowlifes as $1,000-a-week writers drink tap water. Theodora thought that she would have something special with her water from Hereford, where tooth decay is almost unknown, supposedly because of fluorine in the water (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). She sewed up commercial rights with the town of Hereford ("For all the water we'll ever need"), and leased a 10,000-gallon railway tank car to haul the water to Hollywood at $1,100 a trip...