Word: swigs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...columnists university employment if he obtained the 1934 appointment as athletic director. By this time Golemgeske had changed sides, charged that Director Meanwell had offered him a job and two major letters if he would circulate a petition for Spears' dismissal, also accused him of giving him a swig of whiskey after a 1935 game. Waukesha alumni, fearing that their native son was the football of opposing groups, engaged a lawyer, sent him to Madison. Promptly Meanwell, known as a confirmed "dry" for 25 years, marched before the athletic council, denied promising Golemgeske a job, admitted giving...
...evening last week Mayor William Nissley McNair of Pittsburgh hopped up on a platform in Fifth Avenue High School to address a meeting of Communists. After taking a long swig of water from a milk bottle, he began: "Who is this Mr. Bourgeoisie? I'd like to meet him. From what the chairman says, he must be a pretty fine fellow. I'm here to answer the charges of the Communists. The chairman has announced that the issue before you tonight is that of Communism or Fascism. That's a lot of baloney." "Boooo...
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...East Orange, N. J., Campbell C. Groel was arraigned for drunken driving. Police Exhibit A, a bottle of musty port, was handed to the defendant. He took a long swig, commented: "Somebody's weakened it." Thus assured that Campbell C. Groel had been drinking from that bottle, the recorder fined him $200, suspended his license...
...staff at Haneda airdrome near Tokyo one morning last week. There was many a speech, a song especially composed. A message of "highest regard" to President Hoover was handed over by the publisher of the Hochi Shimbun. Then youthful Seiji ("Kite Crazy") Yoshihara gulped a swig of consecrated sake from the Meiji shrine and jumped into his little low-wing Junkers seaplane. Someone pulled down the flag and handed it to the airman and he was off for Washington, D. C., alone...