Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition officials in southern Florida last week published a new recipe for getting drunk-a recipe that worried them because they could not see how to stop it. The recipe: into one coconut, bore a hole. Letting no milk leak out, insert two teaspoonfuls of brown sugar, followed by a cork. Refrain from touching the coconut for three weeks. Result: a tumblerful of cocowhiskey-pungent, potent, popular in southern Florida...
...seen together scouting the bright seas for frolic and fistfighting. In Marseilles they meet Marie, who loves the swab and is beloved of Madden. She, a most charming piece, almost defeats their friendship, but not quite. At the end, Spike Madden and Salami, both very drunk, fare forth from Marseilles in search of further fun beyond the seas...
Bitten. In Chicago Frank Martin, 36, a hobo, lying down drunk in a police station to sleep by the stove near a big, muzzled airedale, bit the dog, was fined $200 (not for this act, but for violating the prohibition laws...
Five thousand people live in the farming community of Reidsville, N. C. Smith T. Petty was a good deal like the rest of the men in the village, except that he sometimes got conspicuously drunk and beat his wife; on such occasions, his children, Alma, Woodrow Wilson, Smith, and Thelma, would stand in a corner, too scared to look. About a year ago, Smith T. Petty disappeared; after a decent interval, Mrs. Petty died. Last May, a Baptist revival preacher, the Rev. Thomas F. Pardue, gave a sermon in Reidsville on the subject of repentance. After his sermon, Alma Petty...
...tried thus disposed of, Premier Poincare turned to electioneering pure and simple. Fervently, though at times sketching the truth, he cried: "France never formulated the idea of revanche*. . . We waited immobile and anxious before the sphinx of Destiny until the day when the Imperial Governments of Austria and Germany, drunk with pride, loosed on their peoples and ours that catastrophe which until the last minute we strove to avoid. . . . On that day of days we were free again, and we swore never to lay down our arms before we had assured the double deliverance of Alsace and Lorraine...