Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colorado's Game & Fish Department. Last week, he sat down to write a new set of hunting laws for the next session of the state legislature. They would call for mandatory prosecution for manslaughter of any hunter who kills another, stiff penalties for those guilty of careless or drunken hunting. Besides this year's high toll, Feast had another good reason: three years ago his 19-year-old son lost an eye in a field accident. Said Feast: "He was hunting with an expert, yet [the expert] got two pheasants and my boy with one shot...
...Legal Mind. In Minot, N.D., Judge Roy A. Ilvedson ordered Theodore Baker, who had been arrested for drunken driving, to go at once and get himself a driver's license, so that the state could revoke...
...soft-spoken as his art is assertive, Hopkinson thinks his approach to portraiture "very oldfashioned. But just as on the stage it is easier to act a drunken man than a line character, it is easier to draw a caricature than to paint a face that denotes fine character. I've always tried to find the fine things rather than to make a sneering comment...
...election night drunken wool-hatters and their blowzy, sweating women careened down the corridors of Atlanta's Ansley Hotel, howling and whooping. In Room 723, Hummon and his handsome second wife, Betty, listened to the returns. As the results from the back counties came in, they told the story. By midnight Hummon had an unbeatable lead over Acting Governor Melvin Thompson (who had prevented Hummon from taking over by force 19 months...
...hero, stalks and finally gets George Macready, the heavy. During the unnecessarily long time the job takes, he becomes foreman for a ranch-owning widow (Sally Eilers), converses occasionally with a lady (Marguerite Chapman) who runs a hotel with photogenic interiors, and is chivalrous to the heavy's drunken wife (Barbara Reed). Although these ladies plainly suffer serious emotional upsets every time he comes near them, Randolph scarcely seems to notice. He is much too busy riding up, down and across the landscape, looking resolute...