Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indeed, less wine and less beer are drunk but more of fancy Oriental herbs [plus orientalium herbarum decoratarum] and more of coffee, which all too often, perchance to the detriment of study and discipline, our young men and women consume in the morning hours in the city shops. And it must be confessed we older men mourn the becoming dress of our contemporaries when we see our students adorned with clothes of various colors and actually wearing trousers which, by the ambitious latitude in their fullness, are more barbarian than any which the Dacians or Sarmatians wore...
...rebel army. Unfortunately the British were encamped at Kip's Bay, half way up the island, and it was necessary to distract their attention while Putnam made his march that evening. A certain Mrs. Murray undertook the task, gave a party, and kept all the enemy generals so drunk that Putnam's men slid by unnoticed...
...railroad train is thundering through the night, between Boone, la., and Council Bluffs. The engineer is sick, fainting. The fireman drunk, at his post, does not know. On the block of track a mile ahead, a wheezy freight grumbles up a grade, behind schedule and on the flier's rails. Disaster whines through the cab window, for the prostrate engineer has not seen the block signal, his throttle yawns unheeded...
...there he was, "Hartvigsen" again, Mack's partner, his importance in the village so enormous there was no longer fun in boasting. Rosa's husband, fat, penniless, drunk, left for the South. Perhaps she would be his housekeeper; Mack had suggested it. She declined. Well, that was that. Perhaps he would find some one in the spring- and there the tale ends, exasperatingly inconclusive, like life...
...driving in the car of Dr. Stumpf, the Secretary of the Illinois Fundamentalist Association ... I did not see the beginning of the first holdup, but when I looked up there were two women, apparently drunk, who had been in the grasp of two men. The women had broken away, and, as I watched, the two men ran up an alley and disappeared . . . About two blocks farther I saw a man who had been pinioned by two other men. One of them was behind him and had hold of his wrist, and the other had a hand...