Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average for porterhouse steak was $1.03 a pound, for round steak $1.00. ¶ In Michigan City, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Agnew, 33, had her dentist arrested for assault and battery. The dentist, she said, had pulled a dozen of her teeth without permission, gave her no anesthetic, took a drink of whiskey after each extraction. ¶Cincinnati Common Pleas Judge Stanley Struble, 82, took a long look at a series of magazine pictures showing a young woman stripping down to the buff, acquitted a news dealer of peddling obscene literature. Said Judge Struble: "The front views, as well as the other...
...city bosses. The ordinary delegate will have little to do but enjoy himself, politick like mad-and vote as he's told. For the first two days he will hear hours of party-line oratory, approve committee reports and the party platform, wander wearily off for a drink...
There were booths and sideshows on Cambridge Common; one of these in 1797 featured a talking elephant that was reputed also to be able to drink thirty bottles of porter at a sitting. The visitors and the graduating seniors came in the height of the day's fashion--embroidered waistcoats, peach-blossom coats, and powdered wigs--,and one elderly lady sat up all night in her elbow chair before the 1758 Commencement in order not to disturb the arrangement of her hair...
...relax. Next to the President of the U.S., he has the most difficult and trying political job in the land. Three months ago he almost collapsed with nervous exhaustion, the occupational ailment of the New York executive. He spent eight days in Bellevue Hospital, began taking a relaxing drink of Scotch before dinner, went off to California for a rest. But he came hurrying back after four weeks to ward off a strike which threatened to tie up the bus lines. "There's no use kidding," he says. "You can't take it easy in this...
...favorite den, a pub. The time he has spent in pubs adds up to several of his three-score-&-ten years. For reasons of health John now ' alternates liquor in London with goat's milk in the country, but he much prefers the city drink...