Word: drunkeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife, worn out in his service, Brodie treated like a hated slave. Even when she collapsed from hopelessly advanced cancer he sneered at her for a softy. His old hag of a mother, who lived only for food, he pleasured in plaguing; once got her drunk for a joke, yelled with delight when she broke her only means of communication with life, her false teeth. Brodie forbade his eldest daughter Mary to keep company with a decent young Irishman; when the first throes of child-birth showed she had disobeyed him he literally kicked her out of the house into...
Greater than that great Croatian statesman Svetozar Pribitchevitch (see above) was memorable Stefan Raditch. When drunk this tubby Croat caroused like a wild walrus. When sober and not occupied with affairs of state he kept a bookstore in Zagreb. Drunk or sober Stefan Raditch could set the voters of Croatia on fire as no one else could. As leader of the Opposition he was foully shot down in the Jugoslavian Parliament by a Government Deputy (TIME, July 2, 1928). In Paris last week Croat Raditch's son, Vladimir Raditch, won his academic degree at the school of Higher Social...
...Fresh interest, fresh front-page stories (again including the Times) were supplied by the arrival from England of a Cunard Line doctor who revealed that Heroine Faithfull had come to see him on shipboard just before she disappeared from home, that he had sent her away because she was drunk, that she had written him she was going to commit suicide. The doctor's picture now made display material as the epic passed into its third week. Observers marveled at what the great U. S. Press could do with the conjunction of a perfect front-page name, a sexy death...
...Testament criticism . . . which maintains that the Gospels are valid sources only for the history of the Primitive Church, not for the life of Jesus." The Resurrection, the Ascension he calls "comforting delusions." Though he thinks St. Paul "superb nonetheless" he dubs him "a fanatic, a stubborn, heedless, Christ-drunk agitator." Browne deprecates the establishment of the priesthood, thinks it was "as ominous as it was inevitable. Created so to 'bank' the fire of Christian faith, the priesthood threatened after a time to extinguish that fire altogether. Yet had not some form of organization developed, the fire might have gone...
...eccentric conduct that she sees nothing wrong in having an affair with a gangster whom he has defended in court. There ensues an agreement between father and daughter: she will give up the gangster if he will give up the bottle. The agreement lasts till Stephen Ashe gets drunk again. He then disappears and his daughter goes back to her gangster. When the gangster's attentions become painfully ungallant, a fastidious young man with an English accent (Leslie Howard) goes to his gambling rooms and shoots him, then pleads guilty to murder. Stephen Ashe reappears in time to conclude...