Word: drank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every village compound, among the squalid mud huts, savage priests shouted the liturgy in the obscure language of Geez, slew sheep and cattle for a sacrifice and the warriors drank the hot blood. The old men shouted tall tales of past Ethiopian glories. The chiefs put on their lion-mane collars. The warriors took up their fighting arms, their wives, their pots and the village set out for the capital of the superior chief, leaving behind only the old, infirm and infantile...
...painfully embarrassing to the Emperor. Four days later, to show the sort of party of which he really approves, the 100-odd war correspondents in Addis Ababa were invited to the royal palace for a European-style dinner. Newshawks ate civilized roast chicken from the royal gold plates, drank urbane champagne from the royal crystal glasses. It was scarcely His Majesty's fault that this exhibition of good taste was spoiled by the palace's electric lights going out several times in the course of the meal...
...Gilbert & Sullivan roles and his perennial recitals of "Casey at the Bat." He was unsuccessful in cinema, which he regarded as a "fleeting novelty." His six wives included Actresses Edna Wallace and Hedda Hopper. Asked the secret of his longevity, he once explained: "I never smoked and never drank until...
...Manhattan, gaunt, long-faced Edith Hanson, 39, casually drank five free bottles of beer and borrowed $10 from Delicatessen Owners Robert Wolf and Alfred Wolitsky in the course of ordering 125 corned beef sandwiches, 50 liverwurst sandwiches ("peeled"), 75 limburger sandwiches ("smeared thin"), 150 turkey sandwiches (white meat) to be delivered within six hours to Welfare Island's hospital prison, as well as a standing weekly order of 350 shrimp salads and 600 coleslaw salads. Delicatesseners Wolf and Wolitsky, their suspicions aroused on the ground that "sick people don't eat coleslaw," investigated, discovered that Miss Hanson...
...middle-class outlook, poor, frightened little mid-nineteenth-century Thackeray"-who gave George IV and his Brighton days their bad reputation in Victorian England. To that novelist George was everything that an English monarch should not be: a bigamist, a liar and a lecher who played practical jokes, gambled, drank heavily, and, as Prince of Wales, with an income of ?70,000, managed to accumulate ?250,000 of debts in three years. Brighton, despite its quaint, un-English charm, its surface respectability, had been the scene of his historic revels, remained so charged with memories of the great, bawdy days...