Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evidence of merciless, meticulous William Hogarth and the caricaturists who followed him, 18th-Century London was mostly a hell of rich periwigged idiots and drunken slum dwellers...
...methods of realism are only a tool. In blending the horrible with the ludicrous, alcohol becomes the catalyst. Drink encourages characters endowed with normal human cowardice to plunge gaily into the ugliest and most dangerous situations and carry them off with unexpected turns of drunken ingenuity. The puzzle is no longer a chief attraction. The principal characters are all detectives and all Watsons...
Lusty, peasant-born "Paco" Goya killed a string of bulls in the arenas of his native Aragon before he settled down to painting. He also killed a number of men in drunken street brawls, was once found near-dead himself, with a long dagger in his back. For a whim, he recklessly scaled the dizzy dome of St. Peter's in Rome, and carved his initials on the lantern that had been left there by Michelangelo. Soon after, he was imprisoned by the Inquisition for breaking into a convent and trying to kidnap...
...must make a Catholic of Charles," said Lady Marchmain in a matter-of-fact way. Ryder thought it was all the most shocking hypocrisy-especially when his drunken friend Sebastian fled desperately to North Africa and took up with the most squalid society he could find...
Another American in the shop finally coaxed the sailor out by offering to take his picture. There was a ricksha outside and the drunken sailor climbed in, posing. "The guys on East 136th Street'11 get a kick out of seeing this," he said. A crowd of Chinese watched while his ricksha rolled away...