Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place of the more customary alcoholic fortifier, a tumbler of orangeade spiked with honey. The House was amused. The M.P.s were also amused when he said: "I propose to abolish the excise duty ... on unsweetened table water. [This] is mainly a tax on soda water, which I do not drink. . . . Very little soda water is drunk neat in this country today. . . ." The Tory Daily Mail dubbed the budget "Cripps & Soda...
Photographer Joe Talbot and Reporters James Bellows and Carlton Johnson charged that they had been seized while covering a Klan meeting and forced to drink a pint of liquor apiece (TIME, March 22). Arrested for drunkenness, they had posted bonds, vowed to fight the case to the bitter...
...beard. The champ dunked his swollen hands in a hot pail of water and said: "We gettin' good, real good, ain't we? Gimme that bottle." He took a swig: "Ahhh-damn good. Lemon juice, honey and brandy. Warms up the body. I don't drink though, really I don't. Here, pass it around...
Seems that Gold and his friend John R. Hutchison, Jr. '47 were bot to the tune of $15 that they couldn't drink seven quarts for beer in seven hours. Only condition of the "sporting preposition" was that the brew would have to stay down until all seven quarts were consumed...
...bellowing Head of the Family, Uncle Chris (Oscar Homolka), who loves to scare and scandalize all the relatives he dislikes, dies, with a drinker's gasp of satisfaction, after tossing off his last neat drink. Mama, by swapping recipes, wheedles a successful authoress (Florence Bates) into reading Katrin's stories and passing on the secret of literary success (write about what you know); Katrin grows up, to write the stories that tell the whole movie in flashbacks...