2 Sentences With "went on the wagon"

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He > went on the wagon (for him this meant beer instead of whiskey) for days and > weeks at a time. The difficulty toward the end was that he couldn't hold the > stuff. He went to pieces on his second or third drink, and he did not snap > back quickly. McCarthy had also become addicted to morphine.
Overestimating his business acumen, he had negotiated his own contract with Paramount, permanently and irrevocably signing away his film rights, and relinquishing his television rights till 1952, by which time, he discovered to his rage and frustration, Paramount was showing late-night reruns and had thus cornered the market. A more immediate problem was alcohol. He told his friend Alice Neel (the model for Louise Patterson, the eccentric painter in The Big Clock) that since he could now afford to start drinking in the morning, he was having trouble getting any work done. On one occasion he almost died from a combination of scotch and phenobarbital, and in 1952 he was so shaken by his doctor's warnings about the condition of his liver that he went on the wagon.