Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original Miss Smith who, aged 99, still ruled the island. Now the islanders, after 70 years of segregated history, had attained an astonishing civilization which was almost an exact facsimile of that from which they had been marooned in 1851. Miss Smith, an extraordinary old woman, usually drunk, had come to believe that she was herself Queen Victoria. She called her palace Balmoral. Antimacassars covered every cocoa-nut-cloth chairback. On the trees about the premises were graven such verses...
...Brooklyn, one William Wakoz, longshoreman, 6 ft. 4 in. tall, and roaring drunk, rolled down a street insulting men, women, children. There approached a priest who said : "Be a little more gentle, my good man." Up went the longshoreman's fist. "Go to Hell,'' cried he. The next moment, Bully Wakoz was on his back in the street with the priest astride him. The Bully was then arrested, fined...
Loud Welcome. Few of the famed men and women who have sailed up the oily river to Manhattan's topless towers ever received such a welcome as was accorded last week to the Irishman whose toast is drunk daily in 10,000,000 cups of tea. There were whistles, cheers, salutes. Six hundred passengers lined the rails of the Leviathan. One Barren Collier, a Special Deputy Police** Commissioner, was present with a yacht to take Sir Thomas up the bay. The Police Band was present? to play Home Again and Hail to the Chief and The Gang's All Here...
...within a month serenading had been begun. On March 6, 1809, the first anniversary was celebrated. After the election of officers the members adjourned to Mr. Morse's where they partook of a most excellent supper. After the meal a number of very appropriate songs were sung and toasts drunk. The greatest order and harmony were observed during the entertainment; when the members retired to their chambers their conduct was such as did honor to themselves and the Society to which they belong...
...Divorce. Alfred J. Kvale, the son of Rev. O. J. Kvale, U. S. Congressman from Minnesota, by the onetime "Billie Stanfield" of the Ziegfeld Follies; in Chicago. She charges that her husband-whose father was elected to Congress on his claim that he was "Dryer than Volstead"-has been "drunk for a year and a half," which is the length of time that she has been his wife...