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...says Convict Dunlavin, "you'd have to do two of them. It's only the mercy of God I'm not a centipede, sir ... Ah, that's massive, sir. 'Tis you that has the healing hand." The warder turns, and Dunlavin sneaks a great swig from the alcohol bottle. "That's it, sir, thorough does it ... May God reward you, sir, you must be the seventh son of the seventh son of one of the Lees from Limerick on your mother's side maybe. [Drinks again.') Ah, that's the cure...
...with respiratory trouble bustle out of 275 summer villas and 80 hotels and pensions to queue up at the doors of the fountain pavilion. Each curist carries his own graduated glass, which attendants fill to the proper mark with tepid, slightly bubbly, radioactive water. After a gargle or a swig, the patient sits in a tub of water for 25 minutes while compressed air is forced up, gets a massage, wades into a thick fog of water particles, finally inhales some vapors to complete the morning treatment. The afternoon brings more of the same. Specialties elsewhere: bath and poultice, shower...
...diabetes, postprandial bloat, intermittent fevers and a host of other ailments. Sooner or later, shrewd Gallic hôteliers were sure to figure that what is good for man is also good for beasts. One fellow with the soul of a pressagent finally hit on the thought that a swig or two from La Bourboule's springs might change a candidate for the horse butchers into a stakes-winning thoroughbred...
...found him. they politely invited him back to Deans for "a little private party." Beg refused, so the players took him anyway-according to Beg-dislocating one of his arms in the process. At Deans, the Pakistani recounted later, the cricketers doused him with water and forced him to swig some whisky, a beverage which he, as a Moslem, had never tasted voluntarily. Not until a team of Pakistani cricketers heard about Beg's ordeal and descended on the party was he rescued from his hosts...
...alcoholics about to be released. The most pitiful shots were morning-after scenes in a Philadelphia Magistrates' Court, where the drunk and disorderly were up for sentencing; the most unnerving came when, back in Moriarty's bar, Announcer Grauer hoisted his highball glass and took a final swig as the program ended...