Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rate he was charged with being drunk and disorderly and bailed out for $50 while his friends telegraphed to newspapers in Portland that the proceeding was an outrage...
...duels is early the next morning. Meanwhile there is a country dance. Jackson falls in love with the local belle argues state rights, the purpose of the Constitution, and the excise tax on whiskey, and forces the duels before their time. One man he kills; the other is so drunk that Jackson fires in harmless disdain over his head. The last act he spends in the girl's cabin, in love making for a time, then in explaining that he is a troublemaking fool (which he is) and his departure...
Young women . . . raving drunk...
...letters, Peterson's Floral Adornments for the Home of Taste, Friendship Albums, memories of elders and bygone fashion-plates (perhaps too many of these)-she wrote the book. Of which act, says she: "I couldn't keep up with myself-it was glorious ... I really felt drunk." She had published two books previously. A Pocketful of Poses and Semi-Attached...
...tipsy girls, as well as men, in all of the halls visited; and in one place, we saw young women who were raving drunk, some of them surging out of the hall on to the street outside, with their loud talking. "We were solicited again and again in these places by the 'instructors' or 'dancing partners,' as they are called. Though they had these plausible titles, they were nothing more than women of the town. "I would hate and loathe myself, if I could stand in the presence of such sights...