Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Haydock Pole Vault Tie between R. R. Smith 1G, Ed. (10 in.) and R. M. Rowe $4 (one ft., 10 in.) thirst H. R. Brown $4 (one ft., 6 in.) Reight...
...stray dogs on sight (fear of rabies) and anyone caught looting. The crack of a sentry's rifle tumbled one man like a jackrabbit; in his pockets were seven $1,000 bills, dug from the shell of one of Ma nagua's banks. Four other persons, thirst-crazed, were shot by Marines as they tried to drink the polluted lake waters. Soldiers shot two grave diggers who refused to go on with their heart-breaking task. Saturday night, as Marines snatched a moment of sleep, a loud fusillade rang out. A U. S. lieutenant and a Guardia sergeant...
...sacred thirst pledge" of this Methodist campaign is, oddly, not Methodist but Roman Catholic, the invention of Father Theobald Mathew (1790-1856), an Irish Capuchin friar whose statue adorns the main thoroughfare of Dublin in the immediate vicinity of one of that city's most popular bars.* Father Mathew, after working for 24 years in Cork, founding schools, opening a cemetery and engaging in rescue work during the cholera epidemic of 1832, signed the pledge when he was 48 and crusaded all over Ireland on behalf of teetotalism. His pledge, as adopted by the Methodists, reads...
...pledge, God helping me, in honor of the sacred thirst of our Lord and with the help of the Holy Spirit, never to drink intoxicating liquor or to use any narcotic or opiate, and that I will through life exert my utmost endeavors to prevent their sale and use by others...
Chapin suffered from two afflictions: tuberculous throat and a thirst for gambling. Driven from work by the first ailment in 1914, he took leave of absence, won a fortune in the sugar market, lost everything-including some money entrusted to him-when the outbreak of the war closed the Stock Exchange. Back in Manhattan he became more and more deeply involved. Extravagant living made hopeless any effort to pay his debts. At the end of four years a court demand for an accounting of his trust caused the final break. Walking with his wife one day Chapin was accosted...