He was a prodigious drinker, and an habitual user of Methedrine and Benzedrine.
Babe Ruth (class of 1936), a prodigious drinker and womanizer and yet popular and revered, fits the category.
A recent Post profile shed light on Huguely's life and childhood, calling him a prodigious drinker with a "mercurial temperament" and the product of an "ugly divorce"....One night in February of this year, Huguely's mask slipped.
A "prodigious" drinker ("Hangovers," he wrote in a letter to Jessica Mitford, "were drowned like kittens the following morning"), Fermor also never relinquished what Cooper terms "his weakness for the sleazier pleasures of the night".
He was a prodigious drinker, and a brilliant campaigner, who travelled around the state with a hillbilly string band called the Strawberry Pickers.
He also began frequenting bars in Newark and Hoboken, where he commenced his habits as a prodigious drinker and a passionate jazz buff.
(What Lynch, a prodigious coffee drinker, lacks in eloquence, he generally makes up for in caffeinated enthusiasm).
Benn was renowned as a prodigious tea-drinker, and his desk - whether in government or opposition - was invariably laden with the largest mugs that money could buy.
They were also known as enthusiastically social creatures, partyers of the very highest order, and prodigious drinkers, even within a culture inclined to intemperance.
That's a prodigious pile of mud.
