Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some of these youngsters were going westward on one of my trips on the Trans-Siberian. Their pockets bulged with cash. They drank vodka before breakfast and champagne with their meals. The meals alone cost $4 in American money - I was a piker in such company...
...trackless swamp. By the time Charles had crossed the Dnieper, his force had begun to suffer from want of bread and fodder. The endless horizon of charred fields and burning villages strained his troops' morale. The final straw was the coldest winter in centuries-so cold that vodka froze and it was said wood would not burn in the open air. By spring, Charles's Army had dwindled from 44,000 to 20,000 men. In June it was overwhelmed by Peter's well-fed men at Poltava...
...talking about. For him, the best art, literature, and music was produced before the nineteenth century. Enough of a cosmopolite to prefer Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart to Tchaikovsky and Rimsky Korsakov, smoke English instead of Russian cigarettes, keep cases of French wine in his cellar instead of scotch or vodka, and obtain American citizenship in 1930, he is nevertheless simple and quiet in taste, abhorring social life and all that it entails. However, the professor continues to sling his provoking social theories into the intellectual boxing ring, and although they get slammed around quite a bit there's no reason...
...shoe-shining device that pops out of the wall, a musical chair that plays when rocked, a rattrap shaped like an egg beater (supposed to fool the rats, it fools instead the colored maid). He has also put the family into the business of making hamburgers saturated with vodka, landing the Old Man in jail. Wanting to redeem himself, the cousin attempts to psychoanalyze the race horse. His theory is that, having won her first race, she felt cheated when she found herself right back where she started from...
...their names reflect more on themselves than on the Communist Party. Suppression of minority groups even by the American Legion has no excuse. We are not at war and there was no reason for the veterans' squeeze play. Far more dangerous than the Leftist groups, whatever their fondness for vodka, is a powerful organization getting set to protect America in the manner of Hitler's storm troops...