Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week at London, Richard Joshua Reynolds, 23, son of the late founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel cigarets, etc.), was found guilty of killing a man while drunk and driving his motor car. The court sentenced him to five months' light imprisonment for manslaughter...
Last week at Los Angeles, Mrs. Alexander Pantages, wife of the western theatrical chain man, was charged with murder for killing a man while drunk and driving her motor...
Last week at London, Denys Stanley Thomas, Royal Air Force officer, was sentenced to one year hard labor for operating his airplane, while drunk, so erratically that a scared man passenger jumped to his death...
...isolated cases of inebriated homicides were these. Nor was Mrs. Pantages' killing, if she was drunk as charged, strange. For decades women have been tippling as heavily as men. and in great numbers. In England and Wales, for example, as far back as the beginning of this century two women died of alcoholism to every three men. The Keeley Institute at Dwight, Ill., which was in the news last week because it is enlarging its inebriety cure facilities, has had women patients since the late Leslie E. Keeley founded it a half century ago.* The "Keeley Cure" usually requires four...
Because a drinker's urine, blood and cerebrospinal fluid contain alcohol, the amount therein furnishes a quantitative test of his bibbling. But because susceptibility varies, such amount can at most give only a presumption of his intoxication. By such test was Wilmer Stultz, the trans-Atlantic flyer, pronounced drunk after he killed himself recently (TIME, July 15, 1929). In the living person the test must be made very soon after he is charged with being drunk to have value, because alcohol oxides rapidly, and disappears from the system as carbon dioxide and water...