“Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.”
Sinclair Lewis book Elmer Gantry
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Elmer Gantry (1927)
“Lessee… he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.”
— Terry Pratchett, book Guards! Guards!
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