Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government control, Government sale and distribution of intoxicating liquor to 120,000,000 of people. . . . "In my opinion, it would rot out the pillars of government inside of half a century. It contains every evil and none of the virtues of Prohibition. It would be bureaucracy and bureaucracy-drunk! . . . "I agree with Dr. Butler. The fight is on. So far as I am concerned, I do not care whether it is in the Republican platform or not, it will be presented to the American people in the campaign of 1928. . . . "If a great party in this country will really...
...marks on their characters. Mollie foregoes her music and submits to fate and a father who tends his children without tenderness. Margaret's nerves, sharpened by inhibitions, end by shattering her mind. Wilfrid, a normal eldest son, inherits peace and his father's lands. Robin, who gets drunk too often, marries a country wench and offers succor to Angela when her family find that she has loved not wisely and entirely too well. Stephen becomes a poet, whose small success is not justified by the execrable outpourings of his muse so unfortunately quoted by Prose-Writer Sinclair...
...Ever since it has seemed as if America had lost its soul. There are voices heard in every direction, nothing clear and nothing definite; no leadership, no guidance, no appeal to our nobler selves. We lost the War and we are drunk by a prosperity which has made us so indifferent that, the gates being left unguarded, the domestic enemy has entered and taken every salient and every trench. What has the country gained at home?. . . The crassest of materialism reigns in Washington by grace of Woodrow Wilson's plunge into the War, and where materialism is there sits...
...Drunk...
...London, Justice Roche set a new precedent for English insurance law by ruling that an insurance company could not refuse indemnity to one Frank James who, while drunk and driving his motor car, killed one pedestrian and hurt another. Said the judge: "Drunkenness is a folly, not a deliberate offense...