Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest lion-tamer in the world started drinking, he got scared of the lions. One day the tight rope walker gave him back his nerve by indicating that she liked him. The night he was to make his comeback, he saw her kissing the other lion-tamer. Later, drunk, he was mortally wounded rescuing his rival from a hungry lion and died with his head in the tight-rope walker's lap. Not new, not dull, not convincing, not unconvincing...
...crop is coffee. Some 15,000,000 132-lb. bags are exported yearly, over 7,000,000 to the U. S., and a mere 20,000 to the tea-addicted British Isles. Seventy per cent of Brazilian exports consist of coffee. So long as the bean is crushed and drunk, the ideal-for-coffee-growing southern states of Brazil will remain rich-if overproduction is avoided. During the overproduction crisis of 1906 the Government of Brazil bought and held 8,500,000 bags of coffee, lest the market be gutted. Unlike most such desperate measures, this one succeeded. Since then...
...masterpieces of the collection is a book entitled "The Anatomy of Drunkenness." It is by Dr. Robert Macnish of Glasgow, who claims to describe all stages of infoxication from "the delightful stage when one is neither drunk nor sober" to the eventual possibility of spontaneous combustion in extreme cases. This phenomenon was of frequent occurence, according to many authorities besides the Glasgow doctor whose works are in the collection. The burning, to quote from Dr. Macnish again, was of two varieties. "Sometimes the body is consumed by an open fiante flickering over it at other times there is merely...
...Cambridge, Mass., while out for a drive last week, one Harold Lloyd was arrested for 1) operating under the influence of liquor; 2) possessing no registration; 3) possessing no license; 4) misappropriating an automobile; 5) driving recklessly; 6) being drunk; 7) failing to report an accident; 8) stealing an automobile. Judged guilty on the first six counts, he was imprisoned for 30 days and subjected to fines totalling...
...speeches of Mrs. Willebrandt, Rev. John Roach Straton, Senator Heflin and many a minor bigot were faithfully reported. The technique in handling campaign trends was to ballyhoo a Hoover landslide: for example, "Smith to be Most Badly Defeated Candidate Ever Running for Presidency." Then there was standard stuff: "Drunk Negro Boosting Smith," "Kissing Pope's Ring Insult to Flag," "Tirades on Religion and Liquor by Smith in West Turn Voters in Disgust." But, here and there, The Fellowship Forum would say something nice; one week, on the Women's Page, was a glowing sketch of Mrs. Herbert Hoover...