Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in 1932 the Crimson eleven eked out a 10 to 7 win but since then the boys in green have returned to their native hills with a 7 to 7 tie and six victories tucked under their belts to say nothing of countless goal posts and empty whiskey flasks tucked safely away in their convertibles...
Once he shot a fifth columnist spreading disorganization among the Belgian refugees. Once he went to Arras for information for General Blanchard and came close to getting trapped while two British officers held him over whiskey and "good stories." A Belgian fortress officer told him how treachery had robbed him of a third of his troops the night before the invasion. He was given dispatches to General Weygand, dodged a Panzer column and got through Dunkirk, out to Britain and back to Paris. When Calais fell he was on a train to London, watching the English boys in their towns...
...came after all, the Confederates scared the Yankees at Bull Run, and Union privates got a $100 bounty for enlisting. In 1864, when conscription had at last been voted, pay rose to $14.87. Ma jor General Ulysses Simpson Grant by then was winning the war and buying his salutary whiskey on $2,640 a year (plus keep, four servants). As a lieutenant gen eral and later a full general he received $3,240 to $4,800 (plus keep and servants...
...Luyhx" was a Finn, with a strong weakness for whiskey. After a terrific binge, lasting several weeks, an ambulance rushed him to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. He was comatose from alcohol, and he had a compound fracture of a leg. He guessed later he must have tumbled, or maybe been kicked, down a stairway somewhere. During his three-week binge Luyhx had eaten practically nothing, and his system was so starved that no immediate surgery could be thought of. After several days it was obvious that only amputation of his leg would save his life. Bellevue's Social...
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