Search Details

Word: quaff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...mounted a white horse and made a leisurely paseo of the fair. "I don't know what I'm doing," Jackie laughed, belying her superb equipoise, "but it's very exciting." She rode for a full half-hour through cheering crowds lining the streets, stopped to quaff a glass of sherry in the saddle. Jackie was obviously delighted and so were the spectators. "La Kennedy! La Kennedy!" they cried as she passed. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vacations: The Fairest at the Fair | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

Chinese Deal. Canadians rank only ninth in per capita consumption among the world's beer drinkers, and the 311 million gallons they quaff each year account for only 3% of the $15 billion world beer industry. But Toronto-based Canadian Breweries (Carling, Red Cap Ale) is the world's largest maker of beer and ale. Cornerstone of the financial and industrial empire of Financier Edward Plunket Taylor, it has not only grabbed a commanding 47% of the Canadian market, but has also pushed its brew from 62nd to fourth place in the U.S. since 1949. It has moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Automatic Beer | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

Most of Barry Goldwater's top political aides are hardy types who can cuss in Navajo or quaff bourbon with the best of them. Among these, Denison Kitchel, 56, a wispy, introverted, hard-of-hearing mining-industry lawyer seems as out of place as a Boy Scout on a bronco. Yet Kitchel served as Goldwater's pre-convention campaign manager and will undoubtedly continue to be, in Barry's own words, "my head honcho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Head Honchos | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

Beyond a doubt, St. Louis is back from the brink. In many ways, its people have changed little. They still quaff their suds at the rate of 28 gal. per year per person, root for the Cardinals, thrive on sauerbraten, like to remember that their town produced T. S. Eliot as well as Stan Musial, and pronounce Gravois Street as "Gravoy." Men like Mayor Ray Tucker have brought a new awakening. Says he: "This is a warm, stable community. The people here are conservative and cautious. But I have yet to see them fail to respond to a program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: To the Brink & Back | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

After dark Münchners and tourists flock to the Eve Bar, where Mandy Rice-Davies recently made her professional debut (as a singer) and dress-busting B-girls quaff French champagne while nudes stroll through a cage full of tigers. Aleco's, headquarters for the sports-car set, has walls hung with a Scots tartan, sells Scotch for only 50½ a drink. As the jukebox blares, the patrons-clad in everything from Dior gowns to dungarees-stomp through the hully gully. Munich's promiscuity is an unleering sort, and only during Fasching does it become objectionable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Young City | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Next