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Word: drunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parents want me to," cries Tommy. For three acts the authors of "Tommy" ring the changes on this theme, in a new home comedy at the Park, and but for the acting of Peg Entwistle, erstwhile Repertory prodigy, and Sidney Toler as her Uncle Dave, and perhaps Tommy-When-Drunk, as played by William Janney, the play would be as ineffectual as it sounds, and as popular...

Author: By R. K. I., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/1/1926 | See Source »

...drunk is he who from the floor Can rise again and stitt drink more, But drunk is he who prostrate lies Without the power to drink or rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Drink | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...Monte Carlo. Reports came that the very President of the U. S. Steel Corp., that "good" corporation, was reveling on the Riviera, that he was playing roulette, vingt-et-un, chemin-de-fer and baccarat for stakes of thousands of dollars. Mr. Schwab has never smoked. He has drunk sparingly. He has been a devoted husband. Yet he has always liked a pleasant game of cards. If he did gamble a bit at Monte Carlo, the stakes meant little to him and he had earned relaxation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: War Threatened | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...Dead drunk (unconscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drunks | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...fashioned whiskey glass contained 2 oz., 8 to the pint. Good foreign brandy contains 50% absolute alcohol, good wine 10%, good beer 5%. To become dead drunk, according to these scientific calculations, would require 1% quarts of brandy, 7% quarts of wine, 1¼ cases of beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drunks | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

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