HISTORY'S 10 MOST ACCOMPLISHED DRUNKS

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

It takes a special man or woman to hold a drink while holding down a hugely demanding job. Here is a look back at history’s 10 most functional boozehounds. Continue ...

Dorothy Parker

The wisecracking and prolific American writer and poet once remarked that “one more drink and I’d have been under the host.” Parker could famously outdrink her male compatriots in New York’s Algonquin Round Table during the 1920s.