Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...career turned out an autobiography called Along the Glory Road, traveled a sadder road in North Hollywood, smashed his sports car into a truck, was nabbed by police with a depleted bottle of gin. After slugging a Drunkometer, Tibbett was fined $263 on his guilty plea to charges of drunken driving and hitting the truck...
Mother Dictator. Turgenev was the slave of a mother who had herself suffered all the ignominies of enslavement. As a young girl, she was abused with "drunken violence" by her stepfather until she was 16 years old. She ran away and took refuge in the house of a "severe and miserly" uncle, who, says Biographer Magarshack, threatened not only to throw her out of his house but also to disinherit her. But when he died, she inherited his vast estates, married Turgenev's father-and set out to get her own back for the miseries she had suffered...
Baited Breath. In Memphis, although not charged with drunken driving, Motorist Howard O. Wright insisted on a drunkometer test, flunked it, was fined $51 in addition to the original $26 for reckless driving...
Sound Track. In Boston, Collis E. Wallingford was fined $200 for drunken driving after he careened into a bus terminal, sat honking his horn in an effort to get the buses...
...Placerville, Calif., a cop succeeded where many an oldtime American League catcher had failed: he caught baseball's famed Georgia Peach, Ty Cobb, 67, trying to steal home (to nearby Nevada). Booked for drunken driving and having no license, Midnight Rider Cobb was soon sprung on $315 bail...