Word: wandrous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years between 1927 and 1930, "when the world saw some pretty heavy drinking," Gloria Wandrous became one of the world's heaviest drinkers, inhabiting the tough and fancy speakeasies of Manhattan, where she awed bartenders by the amount she drank. Despairing, weary, intuitive, this 22-year-old girl went on sprees when she "drank rye and water all day long. When she remembered that she had not eaten for 24 hours she would go to a place where the eggs were to be trusted, order a raw egg, break it in an Old Fashioned cocktail tumbler, shoot Angostura bitters...