Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consisting, much like the modern "milk shake," of flavored sugar and cream. While she presided, swathed to immobility in riches, the courtiers of Tamburlaine-according to an ancient historian-"would fall down drunk before her; and this was considered very jovial, for . . . there can be no pleasure without drunken...
BLACK BUTTERFLIES-Elizabeth Jordan-Century ($2.00). When Dorinda Maxwell's father died, she wanted the freedom that he had refused her. At first she thought she had found it in the unconventionality of some drunken esthetes who called themselves the Black Butterflies. Later, when she fell in love with a model young man, she knew she had really got what she wanted. The story of a war of independence is marred by the inability of Author Jordan to raise a real issue between the behavior of eccentric people and that of normal ones. While the normal ones...
...thoughtless pre-Lenten frolic on a Shrove Tuesday morning one hundred years ago in old New Orleans. Through the gumbo mud, the open ditches, along the plank sidewalks, under the street lanterns, paraded seven drunken students, back from their schools in France. As they whirled past the colonial guard station, a startled guardsman gave pursuit to the celebrators, chased them pell-mell down into the Old Quarter, by the Place D'Armes, past the St. Louis Cathedral, along streets lined with white houses embroidered with iron balconies...
Russians listened in over the radio, last week, while Minister of Health Semashko delivered a "psychopathological analysis of the Romanov Tsars." Said he: "They were depraved and drunken despots. . . . Peter the Great personally decapitated many victims of his bestiality and buried others alive. . . . All the Romanovs were incurable epileptics. . . . Alexander III was a fat, greasy hippopotamus. . . ." During the Health Commissioner's harangue, Dictator Stalin, Premier Rykov and 200 other prominent communists sat gravely before Dr. Semashko in the Imperial Opera House, applauded him heartily...
...Manhattan, police were informed by telephone that "200 men are murdering each other" in a Bowery speakeasy. The strong-arm squad found a large room full of tumbling, bashing, roaring, drunken men whom they described as "bummers." Tables, floor and an icebox were strewn with forms knocked unconscious by fists, feet and drinks at 20? each. Next day the police arraigned 133 Bowery derelicts, the largest number of culprits that ever appeared in the Tombs court on a single complaint. What could the judge do with them? All were sobered: They would crowd the jail. The workhouse would take them...