Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Milk, which at five of the Houses alone has been regularly drunk up at the rate of 600 gallons a week, has been one of the commodities on which the Dining Halls have lost the most money. Under the new system extra milks will probably cost five cents additional for each glass...
This is ironically illustrated by what happened at the local Army camp on the lake front. As the radio flashed that Pearl Harbor was being attacked by the Japanese, cracked one soldier: "Orson Welles is drunk again...
...Benito Mussolini's punch-drunk Navy it was a bitter week. Not 24 hours earlier the Admiralty had announced the torpedoing of still another Italian cruiser by a British submarine. London estimated that the Italians have left only ten or eleven of the 43 cruisers built or building at the war's beginning. Cracked New York Timesman David Anderson from London: "Some persons here are wondering now if the Italians have anything afloat that is a match for a British destroyer...
...farce (Her Sister from Paris, with Constance Talmadge), it is an absurd vehicle for Greta Garbo, the Swedish nonpareil and the screen's best tragedienne. Its embarrassing effect is not unlike seeing Sarah Bernhardt swatted with a bladder. It is almost as shocking as seeing your mother drunk...
...better-known warehouses of supply revealed recently. As one proprietor put it, "they drink much more conservatively than men in other colleges, except in special cases such as football weekends or the end of an exam period, when the boys do a quick and thorough job of getting themselves drunk...