Word: tosspot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother (Lionel Atwill), a pompous colonel, considers her a "gilded fly." But after he has sent his young brother to Algiers to cool off, Colonel Muffat starts pawing Nana for himself. By the time Lieutenant Muffat returns to Paris, the Franco-Prussian War has started, Nana has become a tosspot and Colonel Muffat has left his home to live with her. The brothers meet in the hall of Nana's house. They start to draw their swords. But since the point of the story is that Nana, although troublesome, is nice, they do not use them. Nana inconspicuously shoots...
...fancy, Oliver St. John Gogarty is a doctor by trade (throat specialist). Now an Irish Senator, he was a bitter enemy of the Republicans, once faced a firing squad but escaped by swimming the Liffey. In gratitude he presented the river with a brace of swans. A mighty tosspot in his youth, he made a pilgrimage to the top of Featherbed Mountain to restore the snakes to Ireland. When he and Joyce shared a Martello tower near Dublin (Ulysses' opening scene), they protested to the British Admiralty about a warship that interfered with their view, had the ship removed...
Penrose ''never married. He never kept a mistress. When he wanted a woman, he rented one-a professional. He scorned amateurism in everything." As a tosspot, as a trencherman he was Gargantuan. In 1887 (when U. S. Senators were still elected by State legislatures) Penrose supervised a 48-hour party for doubtful legislators at the Lochiel Hotel, Harrisburg. ''In addition to other entertainment, the guests were provided with all the food they could eat, all the liquor they could drink, beds, valets, and music. And inasmuch as at no time were all the guests incapacitated...
...Yandell Henderson of applied physiology and Professor R. Selden Rose, head of the Spanish department and chairman of the University Athletic Association-each made scholarly contributions to the art and practice of drinking. Professor Yandell, interested in the toxicological aspect of tippling, announced in the Yale News that a tosspot would have to down two litres (one-half gal.) of 4% beer every hour to become intoxicated. "General experience shows," amended Pedagog Yandell, "that few persons care to drink two litres in an hour. Under my definition [that 80 cc. of alcohol can be absorbed in the system...