Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last Man's Club of Stillwater, Minn., that you told about in the same issue. They were saps! They should have waited until only one (instead of three) was left alive of the original 34 that put away the bottle of wine. Then the one man should have drunk the bottle up on the stage of a big-time vaudeville "benefit...
...Lima, Peru, a man, drunk & sleepy, fumbled at the latch of an enclosure at the zoo. He wanted to go to sleep. So did a camel in the enclosure, and killed the man. No one knew the man's name. (Camels bite as well as kick...
...Power of Darkness. The Moscow Art Theatre actors portray in cinema based on Tolstoi's drama the slow writhing of Russian peasants in the shackles of ignorance under the bludgeoning of Fate. Whether drunk, sober, at home in their hovels, or on the icy road to Siberia, the characters always convey the tragedy of aspiration groping under a clod...
...share golf clubs with 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...
...drank good whiskey and then let their alcoholized breaths pass through a solution of 50% sulphuric acid containing a trace (1/3%) of potassium dichromate. This solution is ordinarily reddish yellow; alcohol vapor makes it change to a bluish green. The more whiskey the Cincinnati bibbers swallowed and the more drunk they became, the more bluish green became the solution. There is so definite a relation between degree of intoxication and the sulphuric acid-potassium dichromate tint, that Cincinnati judges have used its evidence in arrests for driving motor cars while drunk.?Dr. Emil Bogen, University of Cincinnati...