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Word: drinking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debates across the Charles their feet buried in straw on the floor of a horse car later still in electric street cars they made the trip from Marleave's Cafe in twenty five minutes and now they drop into the subway and are rushed under the river get a drink at a Boston blind pig and are back for their next class. After a couple of centuries of carrying water to the washbowls or splashing themselves at the college pump they have come by the luxury of individual bathrooms and running hot and cold water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Core of This University is the Yard Asserts California Professor Who is Harvard Graduate | 12/3/1929 | See Source »

...person who buys a drink of liquor from, a bootlegger and does not make a report to the authorities has committed a felony and is equally guilty as the person making the sale. . . . Whether it was wise to make hundreds of thousands or even millions of people of the U. S. felons in the eyes of the law is a matter addressed not to this court but to Congress. . . . The wisdom of the law is one thing, the constitutionality is another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Millions of Felons | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...reported that the Elis have a great punch, which comes as a strange news to one who thought gin was the college drink in New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Men Will Feel More at Home in Rounded Stadium--Bottle Royal is Promised for Today | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...songs of the Yale Glee Club include four English folk songs, "Agincourt Song", "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes", "Swansea Town", and "What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor", and three negro spirituals, "Place My Feet On Higher Ground", "Keep In The Middle Of The Road", and "The Battle Of Jericho...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB IN CONCERT WITH YALE VOCALISTS | 11/22/1929 | See Source »

...Yale singers will open the program with four English folk songs. "Agincourt Song", "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes", "Swansea Town", and "What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor". They will be followed by the Harvard Banjo Club, who will offer a football medley and the "Veritas" march...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARIED PROGRAM READY FOR ELI GAME CONCERT | 11/19/1929 | See Source »

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