Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ration. In Wild Cat Corner, N.C., Mrs. Robert Ivey, charged with buying and reselling one gallon of whiskey every day, protested: "I drink every bit of that gallon myself...
Since the 1850s, when local option laws prohibited the sale of liquor to "any man against the known wishes of his wife," Kansas had made it tough-but not impossible-for a man to get a drink. By 1880, Kansas drys decided that they could trust neither the bartenders nor the wives, adopted an amendment flatly prohibiting the sale or possession of liquor...
...long as schoolboy conversations were intellectual Robert got along fine, a classmate remembers, but surrounded by small talk, Robert sat morose, "exactly as though he weren't getting enough to eat or drink." The boy told his favorite English teacher, Herbert Winslow Smith: "I'm the loneliest man in the world...
...nowhere. With a Stetson on his head and a bar of chocolate in his pocket, Oppenheimer liked to ride his horse Chico 40 rugged miles in a day, exploring the Sangre de Cristo Mountains up to the peaks. In the evenings, he would nibble on canned artichoke hearts, drink fine Kirschwasser, and read Baudelaire by the light of an oil lamp. He invented an abstruse variety of tiddlywinks, played on the geometric designs of a Mexican rug. Perro Caliente was "the kind of place one reads about in dreams...
...each of his roles-soldier, cadet, editor, or unhappy lover-there is no escaping the apparent fact that Poe was a genius, with a mind so quick and extraordinary that, even had he not had a fierce temper and a weakness for drink, his mental superiority to the people around him would probably have made him just as miserable...