Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unable to open the elevator door, the woman (Olivia) presses the panic button. In the service street behind the house an alarm begins to jangle. A drunken derelict hears it, wanders up to the kitchen door, peeks in, sees a bottle of wine vinegar, deliriously smashes a window pane, enters the house and goes staggering through it in search of liquid plunder...
Much of the book's charm is typographical, as if the pages had been set by a drunken Linotypist, and often defies being read aloud. In His Own Write is a hit in England, where it is quoted at tea tables and praised in the Times Literary Supplement ("worth the attention of anyone who fears for the impoverishment of the English language"). Lennon simply says that he enjoys writing and admits only to a small debt to Lewis Carroll: "It just comes out. I sit down and write and this is what happens." The T.L.S. glurbles: "He must write...
Such reasoning did not impress Harrison, who decided that Morris had been let off with too light a rap. Harrison made his view plain in no fewer than six different columns. He contrasted the Morris trial with a similar manslaughter case in which a car driven by a drunken New Mexican construction la borer, Elirio Trujillo, rammed another car, killing three people. Tried before another judge, Trujillo got one to five years in prison. But Harrison failed to mention that while Morris was a first offender, Trujillo had been arrested twice on drunken-driving charges, and had escaped from jail...
...from being the work of drunken printers, this is Britain's Initial Teaching Alphabet −a nue wae too lern too reed and riet that Education Minister Sir Edward Boyle last month pronounced "a remarkable success." Only about half of Britain's seven-year-olds now read satisfactorily; one-quarter of its 15-year-olds are semiliterate. But in careful tests of teaching reading with the new alphabet, 20 British schools have cut the usual failure rate by 80%, put most beginners more than a year ahead of their contemporaries. This year 233 schools are following suit...
...seem to shift in the space of a night and perhaps the exhibitionist at the corner of Chestnut and Elm streets is more significant than the lovely woman with a bar of sunlight in her hair, putting a fresh piece of cuttlebone in the nightingale's cage." > A drunken Episcopal priest who has forgotten his liturgy may utter a valid prayer: "Let us pray for all those killed or cruelly wounded on thruways, expressways, freeways, and turnpikes. Let us pray for all those burned to death in faulty plane landings, mid-air collisions and mountainside crashes. Let us pray...