Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ballot for Abraham Lincoln. In Brooklyn three other Lincoln voters (one of them blind) went to the polls, voted for modification of the Volstead Act. ([ Montcalm County, Mich., has its heroine-Mrs. Ileea M. Henkel, onetime schoolteacher, wife of the former sheriff who was fatally wounded while arresting a drunk. She was appointed to serve her husband's unexpired term and conducted a vigorous war on the liquor traffic. Last week she was elected to succeed herself, having polled a vote double that of her two opponents...
...legal medicine it is occasionally necessary to know just how drunk, or nearly drunk, a person was at the moment of accident or crime. For comparison purposes, Dr. Villedent of Paris has collated a table from French and German research. Conclusions depend on the fact that alcohol quickly permeates the human body and is carried by the blood. In the following table figures are transcalculated to U. S. measurements, for a 150-pound man: ALCOHOL-EFFECT...
...Chicago, one George Wilson, arrested for public nuisancing, declared he was not drunk. "Prove it," said the Judge. Wilson asked him for a penny, borrowed a match from the policeman, tried twice to balance penny on match. Twice he failed. The third time, miraculously, the penny stayed on the match for thirty seconds. "Discharged," said the Judge. The penny clattered to the floor...
...crowed weren't bad enough in any sizes or shapes. And by the way in what shape do you prefer your crowd? I prefer mine as select as possible. Say three. For three's crowd. Or drunk. You see I'm easily pleased. What crowd isn't drunk with something, if it's only a sense of its own power...
...Drunks. At Utrecht, orderly Netherlandish city, P. M. v. Wulff-ten Palthe found that pure oxygen is a powerful antidote against the effects of alcohol. He gave rabbits enough alcohol to kill them, quickly brought them almost to normal with oxygen. Two delirium tremens cases he soothed at once by the same gas. Several tipplers whom he invited to his laboratory for a regulated carouse interrupted their toping with draughts at the oxygen tank, remained sober. If only he could make a "dead drunk" man or woman come out of a coma. . . . For nine months he sought a "dead drunk...