Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned up a little late, a little drunk. While the toasts were in progress, the Finance Minister, pausing only to hug a couple of waitresses, sat down by Mrs. Haruye Yamashita, 48, a solidly built, mannishly dressed member of the opposition, who had had a couple of drinks herself. Izumiyama wasted no time indicating that he was in an amorous mood. He suggested they have a quiet drink together somewhere...
...began, as so many things begin, over cocktails. The River Valley Club is an unpretentious looking boat club on the Ohio, but its members are the rich and elite of Louisville, Ky. who tie up their cruisers there to drink and talk and play all-night poker. Church for most of them used to be a place for christenings, weddings and funerals-and perhaps for a service on Christmas and Easter. But somehow, during the war, the River Valley members began to find themselves talking about how the center of each community should be its church-and there...
...freshmen supplied the mixer and the varsity added the punch in last night's swimming bill against MIT at the Blackhouse. The whole show went down like a well mixed tall drink when Hal Flen's outfit stirred up a sweet 69 to 16 victory after the '51 squad had taken the opener...
Snows of Yesteryear. Looking at the latest arrivals is often like looking at yesterday's skirts and hats-they appear more "dated" than the ancient wimple or the crinoline. Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes is still fresh as a daisy after 300 years, but who now hums Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, or remembers the purple passages of Norman ("This is It, kid") Corwin...
...Coop, which doesn't sell liquor but the things to drink it with, also hasn't felt any pinch. During the football season students, on pre-game Thursdays and Fridays, buy cheap, expendable glasses. Now the Coop claims that customers from all over the country are ordering generous-sized beer mugs engraved with the person's name and class...