Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Without an instant of hesitation he thrust a finger at this sanctified giant and answered, 'You go home to your poor wife, you drunken beast...
...boom had scraped her no-account father off his boat into the harbor of Newport and eternity. So Betty trafficked her only wealth-her beauty- wherever a likely purchaser appeared, and rose through a succession of what one might euphemistically term "protectors," through the advancing agencies of drunken sailors, a seacaptain, a social parasite, a wealthy French merchant, a U. S. Vice President. That in the two latter cases, Stephen Jumel and Aaron Burr, she actually achieved matrimony, is eloquent testimony to her skill and resource. To be sure, it was during Burr's eclipse, when that precious knave...
...husband among various flirtatious businessmen, gathers headway slowly, as respectably riotous films often do. But it is true to life in that the girl, faced with marrying the man who has wealth and position to give her (Huntly Gordon), or the man who has nothing but his drunken habits (Percy Marmont), chooses the latter...
...brass could show the symphony people something. The Tragedian and the Clowns were running true to form last night, and even encored with Sally in our Alley and When My Baby Smiles at Me; when a Comedy Relief was brought in, like, we almost said, the drunken porter in Macbeth. But the porter is a gentleman of refinement compared with this pudgy person with the pearl derby and the dancing hips. However, by shutting our eyes and listening to the music, we managed to enjoy this part, and soon the acrobatic lady came on and we recovered our mental poise...
...drunken prince twice...