Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kittens & Shepherds. Life at Dallgow, as described by some of its participants, now in the West, sounds like a Dostoevskian debauch. They tell of drunken bouts in Vasily's tightly guarded, 30-room villa; of his shouting rages, his wild rides in stolen cars, of cuffings, beatings and brutish practical jokes. Their stories, perhaps individually suspect, have when taken together a great deal of consistency. His first wife was dead. According to one story, she was killed in a plane crash which Vasily survived. At Dallgow he lived with Lelya Timoshenko, 21-year-old daughter of the Soviet marshal...
...boss rushed special trains to cover out-of-town fires, ran up enormous cable tolls. He wrote boob-catching headlines like A SUNDAY SUICIDE OF A LOVESICK LOAFER. On the premise that "there is no substitute for circulation," he spent his father's money like a drunken prospector-then made it back, as circulation multiplied...
Workman's Compensation. In Coventry, England, Richard Bell, professional beer taster, was fined $56 for drunken driving...
...masterpiece, it is pretty necessary to follow the dog's example, and in modern times, rather few readers, all in all, have cared to exert enough jaw for that. Rabelais has been put aside, largely untasted, on the snap judgment that he is, as Voltaire said, a "drunken philosopher" who wrote "an extravagant and unintelligent book . . . prodigal of erudition, ordures and boredom." The book which Rabelais merrily dedicated to "Drinkers and . . . Syphilitics" has become the property of prurients and scholars...
...Drunken Rats. Dr. Williams' theory is that the craving for alcohol is one such disorder. (He does not explain why a need for vitamins should produce a craving for alcohol which contains no vitamins, and actually increases the need for them.) He tried the theory on rats, turning them into drunkards by deficient diets and curing them with walloping doses of vitamins...