Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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False Alarm. In Fort Worth, Claude Rogers was acquitted of drunken driving after he testified that his car had been zigzagging because he was trying to take off a boot that pinched, and that he staggered after his arrest only because the boot was half off his foot...
Based on an actual incident in California where a motorcycle club nearly wrecked a small city, the plot warms up with good-natured pranks, shifts to drunken brawls, and then speeds to an open clash between the irate residents and the invading cyclists...
...tied to a chair, was tortured with a carving knife until she died; two stripteasers were sliced to death with razors; four gangsters were shot down in a columnist's living room; a bartender was murdered in his own saloon, and a small boy was killed by a drunken hit & run driver. A few victims survived, including the two teen-agers who were only beaten to a pulp, and the woman in the flimsy nightgown who was mauled by masked intruders in her bedroom, and the engraver who was shot through his working hand...
Right of Way. Near Peru, Ind., Charles Windoffer was arrested for drunken driving after he mistook the Chesapeake and Ohio tracks for the road to his home, forced an oncoming train to stop, then bawled out the engineer for not dimming his lights...
...vetoed a bill to expand the Freedmen's Bureau (an agency to aid and educate former slaves), Stevens rose in the House and called the North Carolina-born President "an alien enemy, a citizen of a foreign state." In the Senate, Sumner cried that Johnson was "an insolent, drunken brute, in comparison with which Caligula's horse† was respectable...