Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since when has being serious, doing your job, and not always getting drunk been something to be frowned upon? It's easy to see why France fell if that is the typical French attitude. As for Stein, the self-styled "genius," some one should tell her a few truths about what's been going on while she's been in hiding till France was liberated. From what she says, however, I doubt if her genius mind would understand...
...bespectacled daughter. In an adjoining room Stadtkämmerer (City Treasurer) Kurt Lisso, his wife and daughter also sat in poisoned death. The rigid bodies of four Volkstürmers sprawled in other offices. Two, it was plain, had sat across a table, sipping brandy until one had drunk enough to pick up a machine pistol, shoot his comrade and then himself...
Said the restaurant owner: "I observed the major all that night. I didn't see him do anything out of the way. And I wouldn't say he was drunk...
Lionel Johnson. Oscar Wilde said that any morning at eleven o'clock you might see Lionel Johnson come out very drunk from the Café Royal, and hail the first passing perambulator. Santayana met this young poet at Oxford. Johnson looked 16, was small, pale, with small, sunken, blinking eyes, sensitive mouth, pale brown hair, and rebellious ideas. He kept a jug of whiskey on the table between two books-Leaves of Grass and Les Fleurs du Mai-and planned to become a Catholic as soon as he was of age. He became an Irish rebel instead. When Santayana...
...that is for the future. Right now the General confines his hopes to his favorite toast (invariably drunk in "bourbon and puddle water"): "May you walk in the ashes of Tokyo...