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Word: thirsts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beer Nor Wine For Royal Thirst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prince of Wales to Break Old Precedent Set by Edward VII in Visit to Harvard | 10/24/1924 | See Source »

...provide wine. 'Then', said the Prince, turning to the waiter, 'Get me a glass of beer'. For the second time the waiter was obliged to reply that he had none." The Transcript's account stops here, and it is not recorded whether or how the Prince finally slaked his thirst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prince of Wales to Break Old Precedent Set by Edward VII in Visit to Harvard | 10/24/1924 | See Source »

...duck's, by the solid skin. . . . Even the intelligence common to the higher animals is wanting. The cretins of the 'human plant' kind, as they have been nicknamed, will not recognize mother nor father nor any person about them, nor even a person from an object. . . . Hunger and thirst they manifest by grunts and inarticulate sounds or by screaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cretins* | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

...Rawley and her brutishly neurasthenic spouse, Jack, are about to plunge into African shrubbery on a safari for game and gold. Capt. James Antrim, of the King's African Rifles, splendid fellow that he is, cannot bear to see such ill-mated tenderfeet wandering loose among the lions, thirst and loneliness. He turns in his steamer ticket from Mombasa to England, takes command for and of the Rawleys, gets the safari past the usual vile German agent and as far as a highland camp, three weeks from nowhere. Here fever, whiskey, manslaughter, flies and love descend upon them. Rawley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Africalamity* | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

...accept .the Spanish amnesty," he said, "but I can accept French hospitality. My banishment consisted of 'being thrown onto the island of Fuerteventura, which nature dropped into the ocean like a slice of the Sahara Desert. I lived for months on this arid island, many times suffering from thirst. I cannot return to Spain and retain my dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Dejected | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

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