Word: drunken
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...performance of A Touch of the Poet, the play O'Neill had intended to start the cycle before he became fascinated by its characters and wrote two other plays exploring their ancestors. Generally, Sweden's critics applauded O'Neill's story of Cornelius Melody, a drunken, frustrated Irishman who runs an inn near Boston in 1828, and lives in a dream world of past glories. "As gigantic as Long Day's Journey Into Night," wrote one critic, "but not quite so imposing and important a play." Summed up one first-nighter: "Great theater...
Meanwhile ... In Knoxville, Tenn., James Tipton Profitt, held pending his hearing on a charge of drunken driving, asked to work in the paint shop next to the jail, was found in a state of bliss two hours later next to an empty can of paint thinner...
...Supreme Court upheld the right of law-enforcement authorities to use as evidence a blood sample taken from an unconscious defendant. The appeal arose from the case of a trucker who was convicted of drunken driving on testimony that a blood sample taken from him after an accident tested .17% alcohol. The court decided that the defendant's rights had not been violated so long as the blood sample was removed "under the protective eye of a physician...
...austere old warrior was distressed at the stories of his sons' excesses. He had one publicly flogged for a drunken brawl. "Who would have thought even a few years ago that I should live to see liquor and drugs coming into Riyadh, when we used to condemn even the use of tobacco," he cried. "If it were in my power to choose, I would have doomsday now." When another prince shot and killed the British vice consul in Jiddah because he refused to hand over a visiting English girl, the Old Lion offered the widow...
View Halloo! In Portland, Ind., a jury deliberated for 2½ hours, then acquitted Kenneth P. Stolz of drunken driving after he testified that he had steered his car down the left side of the road before his arrest because he was looking for fox tracks...