Word: quaff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most people who go to Baden-Baden do so to quaff curative quarts of German water, tone up their livers, rest. But last week in the sumptuous Hotel Stephanie potent bankers from seven nations continued to defy all restful rules. Night after long night they kept the Grand Ballroom blazing behind locked doors until nearly dawn. Chairman of these occult doings was driving, restless Jackson Eli Reynolds, President of the First National Bank of New York...
...Courtois did not expect her husband and sons back from their business until the Spring. But June came, the fishing season started, and still they did not return. Neighboring trappers and lumbermen talked of organizing search parties. But, remembering shock-headed Dave Courtois' experience, his brawn, his ability to quaff tin dippers of "trade whiskey" from a barrel, they waited...
...Knight Errant of the Mystic Order of Granada. Sunday, on the golf links, he tells his companions: "I got a birdie here last week," instead of the oldtime "I shot a buffalo here." After his labors, he dreams over an advertisement: "To live at American Venice is to quaff the very Wine of Life. ... A turquoise lagoon under an aquamarine sky ! Lazy gondolas ! Beautiful Italian gardens! . . . And, ever present, the waters of the Great South Bay lapping lazily all the day upon a beach as white and fine as the soul of a little child "Thus, the log cabin...
...actually opened, however, it quickly became obvious that an "excursionist," unless roped, hog-tied and branded as such, could not possibly be distinguished from a "tourist." Any U. S. citizen who found himself in Ontario and considered himself to be a Canadian tourist could secure a tourist permit and quaff beer, wine, ale, whiskey, champagne, gin, in any legal "residence," including his hotel room...
Ripe, laughing wenches-half a score of them-took turns at dancing with their future King and Emperor when Edward of Wales visited the excessively plebeian Lambeth Carnival one night last week, and later moved on to quaff punch with sailors and their dolls at the Union Jack Club...