Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day he was lying with his head pillowed on one arm. He was black, bearded, emaciated, and barefooted. Said one of the rescuers: "Looks like we got a dead one." Alvey moved, opened his eyes. "God, I'm glad to see you," he whispered. "Bring me a drink of water...
Moslems are also forbidden by their religion to drink alcohol. Last week the West Punjab provincial government decreed complete prohibition for all Moslems. Non-Moslems can be exempted by applying for a special drinking permit costing 5 rupees a year. A loophole in the law makes the drinking permits available to those Moslems who can present doctors' certificates saying that they are "alcohol addicts...
Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, who used to drink very moderately, has now gone on the wagon, and his government is trying to get other public officials to do the same. The Bombay provincial government recently warned its civil servants that it would take "serious notice" if they were found taking alcoholic drinks in public places...
...absorbed too much of the attitude to life and the feeling for language of the very Broadway characters he has described in his own stories: "And now he's standing here in a blue suit like a truckdriver at his own wedding, rattling the ice cubes in his drink, with people talking about the last picture they made and what the critics said and what the doctors thought about the baby's habit of sleeping with his fist in his eyes, and a man with a guitar singing fake Southern ballads . . . and the magenta girl with three breasts...
...rising to economic and social power by defeating the Sartoris clan, impotent aristocrats talking about the code of chivalry but unable to bring it to life. Faulkner is especially adept at portraying the creatures of the decayed South: Gowan Stevens, a gentleman of the old school, who learned to drink in a Virginia college but not to overcome his cowardice; Flem Snopes, who would not hesitate to stamp on every living creature to satisfy his greed; and the famous Popeye, a ghastly symbol of machine-age amorality, with the "vicious depthless quality of stamped tin." Against this background, the violent...