Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Lloyd had been drunk during the critical conversation with Mrs. Surratt, an overzealous military court accepted his testimony. The widow-whose last words to a priest were "Father, I am innocent"-was hanged in July 1865 along with three alleged members of Booth's cabal. The U.S. Government, meanwhile, had changed the name of Surrattsville to Robeystown; today, it is known as Clinton...
...returning from his euphoric tour of Europe in 1921, did Hirohito try to step out of his court-ordered way of life. Seeking to emulate Edward, Prince of Wales, who had entertained him with considerable bonhomie in England, Hirohito threw a party for old school chums, who got uproariously drunk on a keg of choice Scotch and obeyed Hirohito's request to forget formalities. Next day an imperial adviser scolded him roundly for his breach of caste rules...
...John, I'm your friend," Robert Benchley once told him, "and all your friends know you're a son of a bitch." Almost from the moment the callow young reporter reached New York in 1928, he gained notoriety as a prodigious writer, a snob and a mean drunk. He kept blacklists of friends who had offended him. One such victim was Author Budd Schulberg, who was cut by O'Hara at the "21" Club. When a bar fly began insulting Schulberg, O'Hara snapped, "Nobody can talk to a friend of mine like that," then continued...
ROSEANN QUINN liked having one-night affairs. She would often spend evenings in a New York singles bar looking for some company to make her feel a little less lonely. On New Year's Day 1973, she'd gotten slightly drunk with some guy she'd never seen before and feeling a little lustful invited him back to her apartment. She probably had no inkling that he would kill her--he maintained that it was unintentional--but then who would in the situation...
...Styles's customers, Sizwe Banzi, is desparately trying to find a way to stay in white Port Elizabeth beyond his permitted time. He is persuaded by his friend Buntu (also played by Kani) of the utter hopelessness of the effort; Buntu instead takes him out to get drunk, saying, "the only time a black man is happy is when he is drunk, or when he is dead...