Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current to work the elevator between the two main floors. But there was enough fuel for heat. If famine threatened, the Duke's chef de cuisine, Maitre Le Laurin, a magician with truffles and morilles, was assured of rations from the British Embassy. And the Germans had not drunk all the vintage wines. From the boulevard Suchet they could go down again to the Côte d'Azur, to long walks in the grounds of their villa La Cröe and basks in the Mediterranean...
...Slowest way to get drunk: highballs while standing at a bar. Quickest: straight whiskey or cocktails lying down...
...rumors, cranks and pranks. A note pinned up in a public lavatory boasted about the murders over the signature, "Slasher Evans." A young Detroit girl received a phone call threatening her life. One fearful insomniac sought police protection because he heard mysterious noises in the night. Every prostrate drunk brought forth a murder rumor. Mystic-minded citizens noted that all the murders had occurred under a full moon...
...Susanna all the way to California, and Union soldiers harmonized My Old Kentucky Home around their campfires while Confederates sang Old Folks at Home. The songs became America's folk music. Yet the Pittsburgh tunesmith who wrote them is often remembered, in confused popular legends, as a penniless drunk who died in a Bowery flophouse...
...lost 40 pounds in the past four months). A reporter could hold his attention only by drawing him doodles. Yet, though he had not danced in public for about 25 years, he did a dance for soldiers at a Red Army campfire some weeks before. "They even made him drunk," said his wife, "which was naughty of them...