Word: debauches
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...audience sees them together as they appear to audiences on the burlesque circuit, doing a waltz buck while a brazen orchestra shatters her sentiment into cheap, broken rhythms. "Can you make it?" she asks under her breath of her tottering spouse, snapped out of a month's debauch for this merry function. "I can-if you'll stick, kid." "I'll stick-always," she answered, and as the curtain falls the audience knows that she belongs forever to the blah of her man, to the hurdy-gurdy of the footlights...
...rude men, men with fat stomachs and dirty cigars, dirtier language, boasting, conceit, overbearing attitude on the course when they drive right into women who are playing and treat us like lepers. They cannot hit decent shots or act decently. Half the time they are drunk while playing and debauch the little caddies with their stories and actions. It is to get away from all that kind of thing that the Chicago women are having their own club, I'm certain. Wearing knickers has nothing whatever to do with it and anyway, I'm sure no member...
When the Chinese Revolution burst (1911) he, a stripling of 23, was given command of a brigade by the Revolutionary party at Shanghai, and for two years he took advantage of his new position to live a life of drinking, gaming and debauch. Suddenly he abandoned these practices, and when his friends assembled to remonstrate, he cried: "I have given up this kind of life to give my real services to my country. You call yourselves my friends. Friends! Bah! Thank the gods, I shall not have to call you friends any more. You, who are supposed to be working...
This hot-blood from Picardy was wrestling then in his soul, between the relentless, earthy doctrines of Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, and a certain stirring of religious mysticism within him which he had tried in vain to sully, down, and conquer by debauch. Perhaps in the young man's troubled mind Death and God seemed strangely opposed, for he had just come from the sick bed of a favorite grandfather, then dying of cancer of the stomach...
Sirs: . . . The letter printed in TIME, Feb. 28, under the caption "Ohio's Coal Bin" is no more than oafish drivel. Subscriber* Zweiger's confessed familiarity with the routine of sleeping off a debauch over Sunday doubtless explains why he has never met any of West Virginia's representative citizenship. His amazing inaccuracy is exemplified in his inference that the Ohio River was named for our excellent neighbor state to the north and west. The reverse is the case by nearly 200 years, bat what's 260 years to Mr. Zweiger...