Word: swig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carranza & Villa. When the years of revolutionary triumph began to lengthen, Obregon might easily have seized the Presidency. But he stood aside for his friend Venustiano Carranza, bearded, schoolmasterish, vain. When Carranza had had his swig of power and seemed reluctant to pass on the cup, General Obregon ousted him and probably issued the order which resulted in his assassination...
Soon sober and efficient Prague police, who do not think that Dr. Benes should tipple, tope, booze, guzzle, swig or swizzle, laid heavy hands upon Michael Maresch and clapped him into a cell...
First let us serve the nectar, and then to take the good taste away let us all have a good swig of Sloan's Liniment. For such is the method of attack, when dealing with a piece such as "The Madcap". The nectar is in the summing up of the performance of Mitzi, upon whose shoulders hangs the entire production. This lady, reminiscent of the Duncan sisters in "Topsy and Eva", is really highly amusing. Regardless of when she was at her prime, presumably before what Professor Merriman chooses to call "the late unpleasantness", she still can put her personality...
...remedied. He noted that the other lace was not quite as it should be; leaned over; re-tied that one. After such exercise he felt uncontrollable thirst for soda pop. Purchasing a bottle from a passing vender, he sat down on the edge of the dugout; proceeded to swig politely, without haste...