Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard beer in bottle, ginger ale and sarsaparilla will slake the burning thirst of the class. Cigarettes, pipe tobacco, crackers and cheese, will also be provided. All members of 1919 will be allowed to attend, whether or not they belong to the Union. The doors will not be opened until 8 o'clock...
Disraeli himself says that he entered politics from the love of popular favor, and from ambition to rise from the masses. He wanted distinction, power, and wanted it while he was alive. Did he, then, put political sincerity and integrity aside in his thirst for fame? That he wavered in his choice of parties, that he completely reversed his platform, aroused suspicions on this score. Yet he was less inconsistent than Peel and Gladstone; he was in constant sympathy with the people, as is shown by the tenor of the laws which he urged, and he invariably appears...