hard drinking

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There is McAvoy's hard drinking, watery-eyed boss, played by Sam Waterston, who defends the show to the relentlessly commercial, highly nepotistic and unguardedly stupid cable owners.

From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 2012

Almost without exception they were well along in years�men who had spent the best part of their lives in hard riding on the range and in hard drinking afterwards, bronzed and heavy-handed titans.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were a good many guests in the house at times, almost invariably men, but none of the wild revels of the old days, very little hard drinking, and no play to speak of.

From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)

All sorts and manners of men love to measure their strength with each other,—swordsmen, swimmers, pedestrians, even hard drinking used to have its duels of rivalry,—gamblers never.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James

After a period distinguished by hard drinking and hard eating, has come a period of comparative sobriety, which, in teetotalism and vegetarianism, exhibits extreme forms of protest against the riotous living of the past.

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert