Word: drinkingest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon became publisher of the Territorial Enterprise and a full-time Westerner. Now he writes of his new home town with the same purple pen he used to describe Eastern gin-mills for the New York Herald Tribune: "The saloons of Virginia City," he rhapsodizes, "then and now the drinkingest community in all the wide, wonderful, boozy world-what profligate enchantments were not latent in the mere roll call of their names, perfumed with intimate association and Old Noble Treble Crown Whiskey! There were Pat Lynch's Place, The Old Magnolia, The Smokery. Gentry & Crittenden...
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