Word: swillingness
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In the 1936 young officers' revolt, sake-swilling Okada saved his life by attending his own funeral. His brother-in-law, murdered by mistake, was buried as Okada, and assassins stopped looking for the Premier. Okada politely thanked all who sent condolences, resigned as Premier, returned to his sake...
Cause Célèbre. Mr. Quennell's liveliest figure is his least known one: John Wilkes. This squint-eyed, witty, opportunistic M.P. had immense charm, justly boasting that he could "talk away" his ugly face in half an hour. He led a dazzlingly licentious existence-swilling, wenching...
Died. Josef Bürckel, 49, veteran Nazi Gauleiter in the Saar, Austria and Lorraine ; of pneumonia; in Germany. One of Hitler's earliest henchmen, liquor-swilling Bürckel developed from a dissatisfied elementary schoolteacher into Hitler's top plebiscite fixer.
Enrico Caruso made his dazzling international reputation in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. The son of a wine-swilling Neapolitan mechanic, he started as one of the many bush-league Italian tenors of the '90s with a voice so deep that he was accused of being a baritone. Not...
could no longer be allowed with safety to the forces," he and his fellow correspondents protested violently against not being allowed to use such a phrase as "the siege of Singapore": " 'But surely you can't deny that we are besieged.' " 'Besieged, yes,' said the...