Word: drinker
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Even in those days," declared Mr. Suma, "I felt Mr. Wang's patriotic ardor, his zeal to construct a rejuvenated China. You know, he is quite a drinker, although you wouldn't take him for one. He could take it all right. I think it was in the summer of 1931, when he established a National Government in Canton against Chiang Kaishek, [that] I presented him with a cask of Akita sake (rice wine) from my native province and we drank together one night at his house in Tung-shan [suburb of Canton]. He drank sake, cold, from...
...Throughout the country, they said, there are 19 rayon companies which use carbon disulfide. Some of them, like Du Pont at Wilmington, Del., take special pains to guard their employes from poisonous C52 fumes. American Viscose Co. cut down the hazard with a new ventilating system designed by Philip Drinker of Harvard. But hundreds of workers throughout the U. S. have been permanently disabled...
...rising before the Yardlings like a cloud--a past crammed with visions of irresponsible Presidents who have made their roommates Jubilee chairmen and then kidded them playfully for running $1000 in the red. The Freshmen shiver when they hear of a former ice-cream cater, or a milk-drinker, who rose to triumph on his illgotten publicity. It's all very unfortunate, when an election should be such a fine thing, a stimulant to class interest, even a lesson in citizenship. Yes, the Freshmen are right, the old system must...
...light vices, of the alley Negroes (he calls them coons, Aframericans, blackamoors), of policemen, of livery stables, of trips to Washington with his father, he tells a great deal, most of it as solid as it is entertaining. He writes a beautiful chapter on his father as a businessman, drinker and practical joker, makes him, quietly, a great comic character. Chief cause of the comedy: he "was probably the most incompetent man with his hands ever seen on earth...