the terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel

The other night, what looked like an entire RAF squadron, all very tanked up, played a football game in the lobby, while we looked on with glazed eyes.The Dutch are more stoical—they get drunk and stay drunk.

The umpire missed the call. The ball hit the baseline.

The man I want to tell you about, the one I met at the bar at Jimmy's Steak House, was on a tear. Hardly surprising, since this was a bar, after all, and what do people do at bars except drink, and one drink leads to another -- and if you're in a certain frame of mind, I suppose, you don't stop for a day or two or maybe more.