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...drank himself into a legend. At his parties he scorned champagne for alternate sips of vodka and hot water. One morning at breakfast a friend offered him sugar and milk to put into a cup which he had just filled from a teapot. "What!" exclaimed the Yuvaraja, "in whiskey...
Fierce, outspoken, daredevil, vodka-loving, horse-smelling, barrel-chested, mustache-proud* Cossack Budenny is probably the only man in Russia who has never kowtowed to Boss Stalin. He survived all the purges because of 1) his popularity with the people, and 2) his value to the Army. He was made a Field Marshal in 1935, Commander of the Moscow District in 1937, Vice-Commissar of Defense last year. Although a past master of guerrilla warfare, when he cannot fight guerrilla-style he adopts the tactics of Confederate General Nathan Bedford ("Git-Thar-Fust-With-The-Mostest-Men") Forrest and relies...
...room. One day, during an epidemic of deadly typhus, Peck felt logy, and noticed pink spots all up & down his left arm. He was sure he had typhus. Deciding to die gallantly, he persuaded a friend to help drink down first a bottle of brandy, then a bottle of vodka. When he awoke next afternoon with no recollection of having done any cooking, he found his room a mess of feathers, blood, picked bones. The pink spots were gone, and Graham Peck felt fine...
Three long tables were piled high with goodies calculated to water many a Nazi mouth: caviar, turkey, sausages, cream puffs, cakes, vodka, Rhine wine, punch, liqueurs, beer. Biggest culinary drawing card: real coffee pouring out of steaming samovars. Most of the guests talked a lot more about eating than about the war, official Hitler Photographer Heinrich Hoffmann describing, between mouthfuls, the gustatory delights of his favorite culinary combination - boiled potatoes and dry champagne...
...long can Yale authorities continue to overlook the serious direction in which a little vodka has turned student heads. The names of the leaders--"V. Leggakacheff, S. Pullizpantzoff, X. Wachtoff, and D. Ginsburgovitch"--have already been revealed. It remains only for the crusading "Yale News" to make university authorities fully aware of the "White menace" and to send all remmants of Czaritst Imperialism back to Lenin...