Word: drunkeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Panchen Lama roving about war-torn China with the immunity and pomp of a walking deity. In honor of this little man on whom rests the duty of maintaining Buddhist doctrines pure, an invigorating banquet was tendered by Governor-General Chang at which hot tiger's blood was drunk...
...those leavening distractions which to some degree save the student from the set and sterile point of view of its academic side, its ever-encroaching zeal for "scholarship", and the bugbear of the graduate schools. Our critics are wont to accuse us of being unbalanced if not actually drunk, however...
...Paul said (1 Timothy 5:23): Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake. . . . The Saviour, whose first miracle on earth was to turn water into wine, once said: No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, the old is better (Luke...
...chief accountant in a government office in Moscow, one Philip Stephanovitch Prohcroff, gets unaccountably drunk the night before pay day, aided by the office porter and the cashier, young Ivan. Next morning they find .themselves, with a large wad of government money, and in a most regrettable condition, on the train to Leningrad. Horrified, they immediately get drunk again. Never quite sober, always refusing to face the fact, they wander about Leningrad from hotel to nightclub, from the city to the country, and finally, in despairing, shaky soberness, return to Moscow and jail. A typical scene...
...Senate was unconvinced. One after another a half-dozen Senators arose to speak brief condemnations of Senator Bingham. Senator Gillett of Massachusetts, pleading for his Connecticut neighbor, revealed that when he was House Speaker he "frequently saw Congressmen drunk on the floor but he never "considered it necessary to censure them publicly...