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Word: drunken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Milk Punch. In Los Angeles, Milkman Morris E. Booze crashed into a parked car, was arrested for drunken driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 19, 1946 | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Theron W. Kilmer, 74, child specialist, inventor of famed "Kilmer Test" for spotting drunken drivers by examining heart action, breathing, equilibrium and handwriting; of heart disease; in Rockville Centre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 12, 1946 | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Almost every night some drunken American would insist that the band play the Nazis' Horst Wessel Lied. Reluctantly the musicians complied, hurrying the beat to get it over with, while the German customers stared morosely into their beers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Blues | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...game of footie between two younkers known as Daisy Bell (Cecile de Lucas) and Thad Calhoun (Larry Sherman). Its long suit is actually scatology - lice, bedbugs, belches, outhouses, bare and dirty feet planted on the breakfast table. These intended guffaw-getters are complemented by such basic hillbilly humors as drunken lechers, gabbling halfwits and twitching hags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Heinrich Himmler, who in life looked like a cross between a wasp and a pig, looked different in death. His death mask (see cut), taken near Lüneburg, Germany, after his suicide (by swallowing potassium cyanide), might have been mistaken for that of a daft and drunken Silenus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nods | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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