Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joshers. No community chest has Butte, Mont. But one pre-Prohibition day, some of Butte's businessmen, having a drink together before going home to carve the Christmas goose, were confronted by a starving beggar. Said he: "My wife is ill and I've got children who are absolutely certain Santa Claus is coming tomorrow morning." The businessmen took up a collection and decided thereafter always to take care of their poor neighbors for two weeks at Christmastime. They called themselves the Joshers Club and now, instead of community chestmen, beaming Joshers buttonhole the townsfolk to help Butte...
...with exposure. Intriguer Wurm then intervenes. To get Luisa for himself, he kidnaps her father, tells her that to save his life she must sign a paper denying her love for Rodolfo. She complies. The paper reaches Rodolfo and he, grief-crazed, seeks her in her cottage. Together they drink poison from a glass of lemonade, sing loudly of their love despite most awful agony...
...BORN FEB 1 1909 ATTENDED PROFESSIONAL CHILDREN'S SCHOOL WHEN YOUNG SENT TO BENNETTS BECAUSE SOME KIND WEALTHY LADIES THOUGHT I NEEDED FRESH AIR LIKE TO STUDY GREATEST AMBITION TO LIVE IN ITALY IN A COLD GARRET WRITE BAD VERSE AND DRINK YELLOW WINE WHEN I'M OLD WOULD RATHER TRAVEL A LOT DOING ODD JOBS THAN BE A DEPENDABLE INGENUE BUT I LOVE THE THEATRE ANYWHERE WON'T MAKE MUCH MONEY BUT MAYBE I'LL WRITE STOP THE UNIVERSE AROUND US A GRAND BOOK A FAREWELL TO ARMS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NOVEL THINK THE MOTION PICTURE A GRAND MEDIUM...
...want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics!" So exclaimed Sir James Hopwood Jeans, eminent British mathematician, for the benefit of struggling scholars. But he did not mean the remark literally. It was a sentence he had thought up to help them remember pi (the quotient of diameter into circumference) carried out to the 14th decimal (3.14159265358979) by the number of letters in each word...
...Ordered not a single drink of vodka, last week, despite the fact that, for the first time since the War, the wine and spirit list of the House of Commons bars was revised to include "Finest Russian Liqueur Vodka . . . is. 6d" [36?]. Wags insisted that this innovation was for the benefit of the new Soviet Ambassador, expected soon in London (see above...