Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vivid Kentuckiana: blue grass. Bourbon whiskey, the Derby. Mammoth Cave. -ED. Drunk Definitions...
...drunk until he has to hold on to the grass to keep from falling off the face of the earth...
...drunk is he who from the floor Can rise again to drink once more: But drunk is he who prostrate lies And cannot cither drink or rise." I am also reminded of the definition of Dean Gulley of Wake Forest College Law School; that...
...effect of this decision, the first of its kind by an appellate court, was to transfer to the U. S. the burden of proving, not that home-made wine contains more than .5% alcohol but that it contains enough alcohol to make a person drunk and hence is outside the "non-intoxicating" clause of the Volstead Act and therefore illegal...
Deviously Paula set about her malefactions. First she led Boyd to believe that Barbara had merely been duping him. So much did this evidence of duplicity infuriate the upright fellow that he straightway became drunk and stole into the night with Paula. She took him to an unsavory rooming house, where a blue-chinned bootlegger appeared. Boyd sampled his wares and found them unpalatable. When the bootlegger asked for pay, Boyd refused. A tussle ensued. The bootlegger produced a revolver. Paula snatched a convenient bottle and felled him. Then while Boyd dropped in a drunken stupor over the bootlegger...