Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor Bryan followed them and again the couple got no beer. Irked, the woman cried: "You are ruining my reputation!" Snapped virtuous Mayor Bryan: "A woman who lets a drunken man hug her for two blocks on a sultry afternoon is putting her reputation at stake...
...asmuch as this worker will be unable to work in the future, he should be separated from the payroll." Case 2,490: "Upon being ushered into this man's apartment, a sight greeted me that was not only repulsive but nauseating. Worker himself was in a semi-drunken stupor. His wife was lying on a dirty, sheetless bed. so drunk she could hardly raise her head. A mother cat with young kittens was in a box near...
...slow up the story, but occasional lapses from pace and over-energetic mugging on the part of the Pett family are not serious faults. Best of the scenes is the one in which Jim scrapes acquaintance with the heroine by apologizing for the fumbling attempts of an amiably drunken friend (Robert Benchley) to do likewise...
...flew, each with a sharp ping as it left the deck and a plop as it was lost in the Adriatic. Each ping-plop cost about 15 dinars, the peasants learned, and in the rural Balkans that is enough to buy a needed shirt or a night's drunken carouse (35?). They had always heard that "the English Milords are all rich" and they could well believe it last week, watching King Edward & Friends drive off his chartered $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin the first few dozen of 3,000 golf balls which His Majesty had taken along, this...
...Russia like Purgatory; but he came to a patriotic conclusion. He tells of an election night in Manhattan, Roosevelt II's inaugural parade in Washington, Bernard Shaw's speech at the Metropolitan Opera House, a Buchmanite mass meeting, Jane Addams and Chicago's Hull House, a drunken evening with the intelligentsia, a milk strike in upstate New York, Charles E. Mitchell ("a man with a full-fleshed common face and a fierce, unconvincing eye-a man of a low order, caught in suspicious circumstances and hard put to it to talk himself out") on trial for defrauding...