He investigated rumors about the sex lives, drinking habits and family problems of Nixon's political opponents.
It gives us the most unwittingly tedious people in fiction, living their "outrageous" London lives: drinking champagne, decorating rock stars' houses, glamming it up in a Groucho-esque club.
In that James story, of course, the innocent empirical American's reward and punishment would come when he marries that comtesse and retires to her château, where they spend the rest of their lives drinking nothing but water, for their health.
The song mentions whiskey and one of Nascar's most famous speedways, and has a nostalgia for the immediate past that seems endemic to country: "We were laughing and living, drinking and wishing and thinking, as that checkered flag was waving, sure would like to stay in Talladega".
This means that every last one of us spent several months of our lives drinking our own pee.
So people spend their lives drinking rum, going to work when they feel like it and letting the bland food and noxious air kill them slowly.
Too many young, city-dwelling women spend their lives drinking wine endlessly, and bitching about inadequate shows of "romance" from guys who heaven forbid take them on dates to a pizza parlor.
Focus groups were conducted in five workplaces to examine the views of white collar workers regarding the effect of alcohol use on personal and professional lives, drinking patterns and perceived norms.
Updated at 6.34am GMT 1.41am GMT The road to the Oscars ends in oblivion Stuart Heritage is live-drinking the Academy Awards, following the rules of our Oscars drinking game.
They still live there, drinking tea and nibbling dried fruit among Persian carpets and hand-woven doilies.
