Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Socrates, philosophy was distilled with the fumes of Hellenic wine, and the asperity of the argument was soothed by the strains of a girl flute player. Eros was discussed, according to Plato's Symposium, until the wee sma' hours, by which time, as usual, the steady-headed Socrates had drunk all of his comrades under the table, thereby winning the argument...
Bishop William F. McDowell (Methodist) : "The nations of the world cannot live together half drunk and half sober. If the rest of the world will not keep out of the United States, the rest of the world has got to be made sober by the United States...
...seemed to me to expend so much energy. He said he got it back from me, from every one, that what he gives out he gets back; it is a sort of circle. He was so vibrant that I found my heart thumping with excitement, as though I had drunk champagne, which I hadn't! He talks a lot, but talks well; is never dull. Last week Mr. Swope?Herbert Bayard Swope?newspaperman extraordinary and editor plenipotentiary, put over a coup. Swope, executive editor of The New York World, went to Washington in a private car, trailing substantial citizens...
Depressed by Esther's marriage, Meyer goes to a call house with Margot, Riverside Drive street walker. Both become very drunk. Madame Mina of the call house finds Meyer is a lawyer. Says Madame Mina: "Downstairs is the janitor woman, a widow. She's got one girl, only 16. She's been away for four days. She was with the iceman's girl. All evening the mother was after Jennie to tell where she's been and what she has been doing. A millionaire. . . . You know the reformer. . . .Yes, that's the name...
prest, Have drunk their cup a round...