Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once in a great while this clip-and-paste system slips a cog. For example, there was the week a Medicine story on dipsomaniacs got mixed up with a Science story on fish. Our sailors overseas must have gotten quite a kick out of reading about drunken smelts. ("The mysterious malady that all but wiped out the Great Lakes smelts is exceedingly dubious in the case of pathological liars, drunks, dope addicts or morons. But a few hardy ones survive...
...Bread;" "No Meat;" "No Gasoline" said the signs in the French shopwindows. As the Nazis dashed toward Paris, French soldiers lay by the roadside, nursing bloody feet which were blistered by retreat. Most of them were beaten men, but some drunken soldiers shouted: "We're waiting for the Bodies!" Meanwhile Simone, Novelist Feuchtwanger's 16-year-old Burgundian heroine, lay in her attic room poring over the story of St. Joan of Arc. The Maid of Orleans, Simone read, had heard mysterious "voices" bidding her save France by fighting the invader. Soon Simone began to hear the voice...
Captain Benito Castanedo was expelled from the Mexican Army last week. Facing a firing squad for a drunken, one-man revolt, he was saved at the last moment when his wife and six children appealed to President Manuel Avila Camacho. Their plea: he loved them so much that he had rebelled against a transfer which would have separated him from his family. His sentence commuted to public disgrace, he stood at the center of a circle of troops. An officer plucked off his buttons, tore off his triple bars. Then, to the roll of muffled drums, he marched around...
...world got the shock it had been waiting for. But to the U.S. the shock was cushioned by the dead of night; the news came in the hours when the soberest of men are drunken with sleep. Perhaps never was such big news heard by so few. When the nation woke up, the great fact was hours...
...Pennsylvania frontier in 1764, soon became a legend. Tall, springy, savage, he became one of those Indian fighters who were as necessary to the colonists as corn. Captain Jack was always vengeful and sometimes a little crazy. For he remembered the night when, in his absence, a party of drunken Hurons and five half-breed Frenchmen burned his house, tortured his wife and two children to death. Captain Jack's is the best of the four main stories in Bedford Village which Novelist Allen ties together like a garrulous storekeeper wrapping up packages...