Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...other side of the counter, most of the nation's customers had the same sense of frustration for slightly different reasons. In Los Angeles, the ordinary citizen looked at his breakfast plate; the two eggs staring at him came from a dozen which cost 93?; he drank a 94?-a-lb. coffee, six or seven cents higher than two weeks ago, then headed for the office on a bus whose fare was a third higher than it was a month ago. The story was much the same in shops, department stores, haberdasheries and restaurants. The U.S. was reaching through...
...there were plenty of smaller prizes. A group of writers who like to dine in the Brasserie Lipp on the Boulevard St. Germain met, drank three Martinis, and awarded the international prize of the French Book Club to Robert Penn Warren for the French translation of All the King's Men. The same group of men then got up, walked across the street to the Café des Deux Magots, and awarded the Prix des Deux Magots, sponsored by the owners of the café, to Jean Masares for his Comme le pélican du-désert...
Opportunist. In Knoxville,Tenn., Judge Charles G. Kelly dismissed the charge of possessing liquor against Ada Ready when she explained that she never possessed liquor, just drank it as soon...
Concession. In Tulsa, 26-year-old Richard Whitelaw, hauled into court on a charge of public intoxication, explained what it was that drove him to drink: "My doctor told me if I drank whisky it would kill me. So I bought a bottle and went out to prove that he was all wet. But the way I feel, he was half right...
...Mortimer had one quality Fuseli lacked: crass humor. Along with a doleful Caliban and a tumultuous Hercules Slaying the Hydra, he drew such fantasies as an orchestra of flatulent beasts, which must have seemed capricious and vulgar to all but his best friends. Yet, says Grigson, Fuseli and Mortimer "drank to different depths out of the same brew and looked together into the abyss. Mortimer [like Fuseli] wildly, demoniacally, lit up, the eyes, accentuated them in shade, filled them with the gleam of interior flame and power...