Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leave, a sailor home from the Pacific finds his girl married, bruises his knuckles on her husband when the husband invites him to take her out. In A Respectable Place, a drunken cop shoots up Matty Wall's bar and the police benefit society gives him $175 to repair it. Then the cops pass Matty without speaking, his daughter gets a parking ticket, the beer truck un loading at his place gets a summons for obstructing traffic, and when Matty tries to return the $175, he is accused of bribery...
...imaginative in a world where only the strong-willed and easy-going got along. When his mother got a job as a cook he ran wild in the streets of Jackson, sneaked into saloons and begged drinks from the customers, who taught him obscenities and laughed at his drunken staggers. He was then six years...
...tells of the crucial year during which Francie Nolan (Peggy Ann Garner) ceases to be a child. It is a year during which Francie learns that her charming, drunken, incompetent father (James Dunn) may be dearly loved, but not indiscriminately worshipped. She develops, and overcomes, a stony hostility towards her bitter, pennypinching mother. She endures her father's piteous death and-in a bold, overloaded sequence-watches her mother writhe in childbed. Through such experiences, and with the help of a kind teacher, she begins to transmute her weakness for fantasy-building into the tempered imagination of a writer...
...first they hated alcohol, refused to touch it. They never really developed a taste for it. But as their neuroses grew, they took to steady tippling. They frisked about unsteadily, waved their paws erratically, grew belligerent, at length fell into a drunken stupor. These drunkards enforced were cats, and their scientifically controlled behavior, according to the man who made them drunkards (Psychiatrist Jules H. Masserman of the University of Chicago), helps explain why men take to drink...
...date object in the book; the reader's eyes are directed into the past rather than the future. In one of the stories an old woman attains her lifelong ambition, which is to be buried in the place where she was born. In another, a kindly, drunken father spins his young daughters what seems to be simply a gay, Oriental tale, but which turns suddenly into the old man's pathetic way of reproaching his daughters for being ashamed of his drunkenness...