Word: macsweeney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when he was arrested by the spectacle of a burgher emptying a tall stein of beer in one prodigious gulp. In his admiration the General spared the town and wooden figures in the clock tower re-enact the Meistertrunk each noon to gaping posterity in the square below. Jeremiah, MacSweeney, and a large company of well known hermits, on the other hand, increased their reputations by consuming a perilous minimum. But naturally in both courses the attendant circumstances are of importance. What seems to happen more often than not is that the amateurs end as saints, the professionals as freaks...
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