Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beyond the Italians were the Japanese, with onetime Prime Minister Reijiro Wakatsuki, perfectly alert and cold sober, despite his potions the night before of Scotch whiskey and Japanese saké. Of the latter beverage his excellency brought from Japan precisely 20 casks...
...President of the Megntzu Agricultural Society, bandit-soldiers rushed into the banquet hall. Roughly they herded the befuddled flower of Megntzu together, bundled them off to the railroad station, piled them aboard a train which chuffed off 200 miles inland to the end of the line. Cold sober now, the District Magistrate, the Garrison Commander, the Wireless Director and all their friends were forced to tramp over hard frozen roads to a cave high in the mountains. For their release the wily bandit of Megntzu demanded not one but four camel-loads of silver from the families of his guests...