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Word: drunken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York for the first six months of this year 19% more hit-&-run drivers were convicted than last year; conviction for drunken driving increased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Good News for Autoists | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...Nancy Duncan, who play his grand-daughter and daughter respectively. Nancy Duncan again shows her versatility as an actress in the role of the truly bird-brained awkward ballerina. These three carry the performance with the able help of Jacqueline DeSuz in the tiny role of a drunken actress. The rest of the cast lacks the precision which such comedies require and as a result there are moments when the antics of this strange family become less than humorous...

Author: By S. A. K., | Title: PLAYGOER | 9/2/1942 | See Source »

Debut. In Lindsay, Ont., Charles H. Batchelor was appointed constable on Tuesday, arrested for drunken driving Tuesday night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 27, 1942 | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Members of U.S. Navy training units at Northwestern University petitioned National W.C.T.U. President Ida B. Wise Smith to undertake "a drive against the misconception that Navy men are intemperate," to "seek to discredit the popular simile 'reeling like a drunken sailor.' " Said President Smith, reassuringly: "We of the W.C.T.U. will be glad to help them defend their reputations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: PEOPLE | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...conventional as a likeable, prosperous business man who can't understand why his wife isn't happy. And then there is the inevitable chronic drunk, Who Has Searched For Beauty In Life And Found Nothing But Emptiness So Has Taken To The Bottle. His language is a sort of drunken allegorical double talk, about climbing to the top of the hill and looking at the horizon: Of course it is he who discloses to the wife the fact that she is really unhappy, and the play is concerned with the conflict between his philosophy of life and that...

Author: By J. M., | Title: PLAYGOER | 7/1/1942 | See Source »

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