Word: swillingness
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The Evanston ladies were cheered by that news, but they were worried about something else. They feared that, before Prohibition came again, youths of the Army would be seduced into swilling beer at taverns near their camps. God forbid, said the ladies, that World War II should produce a nation...
British patience was strained. The London Daily Express called the civilian and military defenders of Malaya "a pack of whiskey-swilling planters and military birds of passage." The only answer: The Aussies had not yet begun to fight.
Kentucky Moonshine (Twentieth Century-Fox) presents the Ritz Brothers bodaciously aping the feuding, corn-swilling hillbilly-o of the cartoon-strip clan. For the most part a lather of Ritz-Brother grimacing and guggling, this Hollywood picture of hillbilly doings is typically untypical.
The objection has something to it, but it is laughable coming from Mr. DeCasseres. This generation judges Mr. DeCasseres with trepidation, of course, because by his own admission the worthwhile world ended a long time ago, after the days when Herbert, Hartman, O'Malley and their school of literary and...
The story begins with Chief "Thunder Horse, who left his native haunts at an early age to attend Haskell Institute and never returned, in a wild west show at the Chicago World's Fair, lionized by the young society matrons, and swilling down cocktails with the best of them. Hearing...