Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago last week, Casper Rusnak, 35, Mrs. Winska Rusnak, 30, were arrested and charged with the murder of their daughter Helen, two years old. Casper Rusnak was drunk. Winska Rusnak, once insane, admitted that she had shot her daughter, but could...
...another question to the application card for seats at football games, namely: Do you intend to be drunk at this game? It would then be possible to have a Guzzler's Section and the common run of spectators could be spared from synthetic fumes and maudlin comments...
...Hotel Royal Danieli, Mayor Walker attended a formal luncheon given in his honor by Count Orsi, Podesta of Venice. Having finished what he termed "the best luncheon I have ever drunk," the Mayor spoke to the guests. He reminded them that in New York there are Italian, Chinese, Jewish quarters where no English is understood. Even his interpreter smiled when he remarked: "That is why I've been elected so many times." When congratulated upon this and other sallies, the Mayor made a gesture of dismay, exclaiming: "My goodness, I forgot to mention Columbus. Just imagine an American speaking...
...together there was no minority, only unanimity." ¶After a luncheon given for him by Prince Potenziani, Mayor Walker made a speech which he began with witticism that had served him so well in Venice (see above). His words were: "This is the best punch I've ever drunk." When Prince Potenziani expressed his pleasure at entertaining "the chief magistrate of the greatest city in the world, of that fabulous city of incomparable development in which Anglo-Saxon energy with untiring activity has translated into actual fact the boldest conceptions of human thought ..." Mayor replied, "Prince, if you said...
What penance may society exact from an Irish elevator-man who, disgruntled over his pay, gets drunk, steals and drinks a house holder's Canadian ale, gnaws the householder's baked ham, belabors the householder's crystal chandelier and mirrors with the ham bone and flings the ale bottles-not to mention ash trays, knives & bric a-brac-through the householder's high-priced canvases by Rubens and Van Dyck? For such deeds, causing $50,000 damage in the Fifth Avenue apartment of C. Bai Lihme, retired zinc man (TIME, July 11), a Manhattan judge last...