Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Jordan, Dean Sherman, Kirby-Miller, and Dean Cronkhite customarily receive visits from the girls. Last year the Jordans rewarded the Harvard songsters with old fashioned wassail and popeorn. The four officials usually prearrange which one of them will offer the girls food and drink...
...island of Bora Bora where the U.S. had a base during World War II. The treasure consists of empty Coca-Cola bottles dumped by Army and Navy personnel during the years 1942-45. The natives have dived up more than 30,000 to date, which they sell to soft-drink emporiums in Papeete at 3 francs per bottle...
...those unable to drink of this heroic cup, violence is preferable to cowardly submission. "When there is choice between cowardice and violence," said Gandhi, "I advise violence ... I cultivate the quiet courage of dying without killing. But to him who has not this courage I advise that of killing and being killed, rather than of shamefully fleeing from danger...
...favorite drink at Williams is a Purple Passion (gin plus "anything else behind the bar that's not quite finished off"). Princeton's drink is the Sea Breeze (which also begins with gin, then gets out of hand). At Yale, a girl can get away with "two suits and two dressy dresses"; at Cornell, she should have a fall suit, a cocktail dress, a sweater & skirt, an evening dress, walking shoes, dancing shoes, an evening wrap and a warm coat...
...Skid, Grable's alcoholic husband, Dan Dailey is an engaging dancing partner. The moral seems to be: forced to choose between booze and Grable, what man would be fool enough to want to drink...