Word: drunkeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to burn out. Two Jewish members of the crew reminded the German captain that the Metha Nelson was a ship, not a Nazi concentration camp. He tossed them in the brig. Shore police at various ports of call tossed the rest of the crew in jail for getting drunk. Captain Hoffmann got them out. At sea the crew talked mutiny. In Guatemala the two Jews quit the ship. Bello did not mind. He asked the Captain to marry him to Nurse Husby...
...Many a Harvard student has drunk away his father's fortune; Leverett Saltonstall, who made no money as a politician, altered the pattern by selling his famous wine cellar to put Richard Middlecott through college with the Class of 1880." Richard V went into the law. His son, Leverett III, graduated in 1914, went into the law, and is now Governor of the Commonwealth...
Today hot coffee is served in 96.4% of U. S. homes, hot tea in 87.5%, but the quantity of coffee drunk is far greater. While the U. S. has contrived no coffee ceremony to parallel the Japanese tea ceremony, it has paid coffee a typical American tribute: in Massachusetts in 1865 the percolator was invented. And nowadays a cornerstone of economic solidarity between the 21 American republics is the annual purchase of 13,000,000 bags of coffee-mostly the lower-priced coffees of Brazil, partly the quality coffees of Colombia, which are frequently used, as Turkish tobacco is used...
...gong for the next round, she was winded. In fact, she was punch-drunk. She couldn't seem to select the rest of the meal. Every moment that she hesitated the nephew knew that she was losing ground. But what to do about it? Finally the elder struck out in desperation: "I haven't had any corn on the cob for some time. How would what go with clams...
...less a collection of poems than a clinical exhibition. Its stated purpose is to make not words, but Merrill Moore, make sense. Accordingly, though the book occasionally and happily deviates from its stated purpose, most readers will count Merrill Moore neither poet, poetaster nor poeticule, but a scientist drunk with words...