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...fruitless enterprise. Dartmouth men are extremely generous, especially on party weekends, but few were disposed towards surrendering their dates without a battle, or at least a few sharp words. Some bird dogs won their letters over the weekend, but only by fighting a war of attrition in which whiskey and sweet words were the principal weapons...

Author: By Richard B. Kline, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 2/16/1951 | See Source »

...sitting in his cluttered study. Professor Coy taught and talked history with the air of a reminiscent prospector. Over the years he traveled thousands of miles along pioneer trails, tabulated the names of more than 57,000 old California settlements, came to know as much about Grizzly Gulch, Whiskey Slide, Swellhead Diggings, Loafers' Flat and Lousy Level as any man alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...story featuring large amounts of Irish whiskey and Irish blood won $5 for a rag-clad "merchant seaman." The donors were two soft-hearted Wigglesworthy residents, Frank Ensign '52 and Richard Craven '52, who admitted to Yard cops yesterday that they were completely taken in by the confidence man's tale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stranger's Story Hits Irish Hearts | 4/15/1950 | See Source »

Fill another ten-ounce glass three-fourths full of good Irish Whiskey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Switch to Skiing Gains Broad Approval | 3/18/1950 | See Source »

...mustache, a cold and acquisitive eye, and a brawler's shoulder-swinging walk. He affects dark glasses, wears a diamond ring as big as a dime on one rocklike fist, and on the flat Texas highways drives his royal blue Cadillac at 100 m.p.h., often with a whiskey bottle at his side. He likes to shoot craps at $1,000 a throw, and has a longshoreman's uninhibited propensity for barroom fights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: King of the Wildcatters | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

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