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Word: drinking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dance on the last night of Gay's life the steward had murmured that he had half a mind to take a drink to her cabin. At 2 a.m. he did. When she had finished it, Camb said, "I climbed on the bed beside her. She raised no objection." Later, she fainted. Camb could not revive her. In a panic, he snaked her body through the porthole into the sea. It was never found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Don Jimmy | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...things that drive a man to drink- the wrong kind of job or trouble at home -can frequently be corrected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Billion-Dollar Hangover | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...lead on Reporter Hugh Fullerton's story in the old Chicago American about a man who sued for an annulment after he discovered, on his wedding night, that the bride had a glass eye: " 'Drink to me only with thine eye,' said Steve Mijalewski to his new wife. And she raised her glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: With Thine Eye | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bread & the Cup | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...whatever denominational name Christians call themselves, whether they receive the Sacrament standing or kneeling at an altar rail or in their pews, whether they drink wine in a chalice, or grape juice in a paper cup, or drink nothing at all, Christians all over the world next Sunday will be performing the supreme Christian rite-the Holy Communion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bread & the Cup | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

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