Word: drink
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Euthanasia. The work was easy; and lightly done, for while working in the Committee of the Whole only 100 members are needed for a quorum. This left the remaining 335 free to take naps, drink mineral water, tell each other lies, go to the ball game. On the seventh day of debate the House anesthetized it by sending it back to a committee pigeonhole. Republicans were content: now they can campaign this year in the country on the basis that the nasty old Democrats have refused to amend the inequities in the law. New Dealers were content: they admit only...
...made his wealth in beer, But we dare not drink it here...
...inches taller (5 ft. 5 in.), eleven pounds heavier (126), bigger around the waist, have nearly twice the lung capacity of the class of 1885. They may have men visitors in their rooms (afternoons), import Yale men for male parts in their plays, leave the campus weekends, even drink discreetly at Poughkeepsie bars. But Mrs. Allen says she failed to find a single Vassarite who ever went on one of the "gin picnics" which, according to college men, are a Vassar institution...
...first time since the war began, divulged his formula for enduring during air raids: "When the warning sounds I gather up some pillows, a pack of cards and a bottle of gin, tuck myself beneath the stairs and do very nicely with the consolations of a drink and solitaire until 'All Clear' sounds...
Twelve good-time Charleys in Natchez, Miss, formed the Moneywasters Social Club two years ago. All were Negroes: William Clay, Jake George Minor, Charley Hall, Ed Frazer, eight others. Just to have a convivial 13, they let in William Powell Jr. Their objects were exclusively wasteful and social: to drink and play cards, throw dances for the rest of the 9,600 Negroes in Natchez...