Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a carefree group of those clever Yale News boys on the street-car going up to the bowl. One of them tried to give me a hot-foot with his cigarette lighter. He was all out of fluid though--one of the other boys admitted he had drunk...
Times changed fast from T. R. to F. D. R. Parson Spence changed with them, but without compromising on fundamentals. He cut his sermons from an hour and a half to 24 minutes. At first he would no more have drunk a highball than try to get a laugh in church. Later he even ordered a set of books called Wit and Humor of America from the Methodist Book Concern, took to reading Mark Twain. It helped...
Wrote Iron Ore, a newspaper in Ishpeming, Mich.: "According to Roosevelt, he is the only man who can call others liars, rascals and thieves, terms he applies to Republicans generally. . . . Roosevelt is a pretty good liar himself. . . . Roosevelt lies and curses in a most disgusting way; he gets drunk, too, and that not infrequently, and all his intimates know about it." (T. R. sued for libel, asked for nominal damages...
...Chungking news came that the trucks were getting through. Spirits rose. British Ambassador Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, beloved by Chinese as he loves them, invited hundreds to cocktails and dinner, where ambiguously mild white wine was passed and toasts were drunk to the future, creeping in along the Burma Road...
Meddling Through. Toasts were drunk in Tokyo last month, also to the future. German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott, feared and respected by the Japanese as he does not fear and respect them, drank with Foreign Minister Kensuke Matsuoka, Italian Ambassador Mario Indelli and Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop's special envoy Heinrich von Stahmer to the future of the three-way pact. But last week there was mostly a show of temper in Tokyo. The opening of the Burma Road...