Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...piteous, hidden tragedy. Honest Kuba, servant of Boryna, had been induced by the Jew Yanka, his creditor, to poach on the Manor. The forest-keeper had shot him in the leg, and he had not dared tell until the night of the wedding when his agony became unbearable. Drunken Ambrose, examining the wound, told him that amputation at the hospital was his only hope. Kuba, companioned only by a dog, lay in the stable, listening to the sounds of feasting and merriment, to the wedding-guests too busy with laughter and drinking to heed him. Terrified at thought...
...heroine suffers with a somewhat inflamed past which seems to be no fault of her own. She dives into the Hudson River to rescue the hero and he takes her to sea on the Corsican. The moment after she has hammered the drunken and predatory captain on the head with an ivory tusk, the ship bursts into flames. Boilers explode...
Stevenson himself said that he was forced to keep low company because he could not afford better. "I was the companion of seamen, chimney-sweeps and thieves," says he, "not without a touch of swagger." To his disreputable drunken intimates of bars and "howffs", he was known as "velvet-coat," and amongst them he sowed his wild oats with a generous hand. He was socially ostracised. Victorian smugness turned on him a discreet back...
...very trim and neat, with jet-black hair." She was one of the class aptly known as "unfortunates", but Stevenson's affection for her appears rot to have been wholly sensual. Rather she filled a gap for him. He was a lonely youth, with few intimates other than his drunken cronies. She stands out significantly among all his later amours?reputable and otherwise. And Stevenson was ever the lover, his hot eager nature never happy unless his emotions were fed with passion...
...Lady of the Lagoon Granville Bantock Yale Glee Club II 1. El Capitan March Sousn Harvard Banjo club. 2. Now is the Month of Maying Football Songs Merley Harvard Glee Club 3. Sea Chanties a. My Johny was a Shoemaker b. Shenandoah c. What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor? Yale Glee Club. 4. Selections arranged by Ray Merwin Yale Banjo Club. 5. Bright College Years Durand...