Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Utah ratified the 21st Amendment last year and put an end to 14 years of Prohibition, Drys balefully predicted that drunken drivers would henceforth make highways avenues of death. First straw in the wind tickled many a Dry last week when statistics revealing a nationwide increase in drunken drivers were released in Washington by Dr. Theron Wendell Kilmer, police surgeon of Hempstead, L. I. To the convention of the International Association of Police Chiefs Dr. Kilmer reported that tipsy driving cases had jumped 479% in Los Angeles; 380% in Cincinnati; 300% in Philadelphia; 122% in New Orleans. Among States...
...deposits not stringent enough. This crisis in banking has impressed the public with the realizations that a bank inspection cannot be superficial if the depositor is to be adequately protected. The general laxity of banking laws made it easy for the czars of high finance to indulge their drunken greed in the field of shady manipulations. It is true they are returning to sobriety in the prisoners' dockets of our courts, but the morning after headache is largely John Public...
...Golson Pleasant; by accidentally drinking a poisonous antiseptic in a dark bathroom; in Shreveport, La. She was founder and headmistress of Pleasant Hall, swank girls' private school at Shreveport. Still pending was her suit against Senator Huey Pierce Long for causing her false arrest and calling her a "drunken cursing woman" when she sought to see public State records in the State Capitol at Baton Rouge (TIME, June...
have undergone profound improvements, but the business of putting a new tariff through Congress has remained a log-rolling party. And each party, more drunken than the one before, has built a crazier tariff cabin to house U. S. economic life. In the hope of advancing tariff -making from the iSth to the 20th Century, Congress last week put into President Roosevelt's waiting hands a magnificent set of blue prints authorizing him to act as Contractor-in-Chief of U. S. tariffs...
...Ghost; the hit-or-miss conversations between a visiting Englishman and the squire's sister (carried on largely, out of politeness to the guest's linguistic shortcomings, in peasant profanity). In a rousingly successful benefit concert the final number was an extempore alphabet duet by the two drunken principals: "Com-ing to the letter Q, Vendt began to show signs of emotion; his mood was contagious and even the druggist was soon deeply touched. At the back of the house their audience was moaning with laughter. The singers were giving of their best; each waved his free hand...