Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...told to make Charlot Granger drunk in order to keep him out of the way until Genevote and Granger are married. Corbineli, who is still in league with his young master, arranges a plot by which Charlot is to feign death, as though he had been killed in a drunken brawl. Genevote is to agree to marry Granger on condition of being allowed to go through the marriage ceremony with a supposed corpse first, and at the proper time Charlot is to resuscitate. Paquier has overheard the scheme, and the plan fails. As a last resort Corbineli makes the play...
...Abdela returns to press matters with unhappy Grand Inquisitor, who as a last extreme produces the disguised Alcayde as the real Don Manuel, and bids the preparations for the wedding proceed. At this juncture the appearance of the drunken Carlos, in the garb of the Alcayde, makes matters all the more complicated and intricate...
...Forum, Sept., '91.- (c) On the score of good order: Pub. Opin., Aug. 1, '95.- (1) Improves public morals: Pub. Opin., July 23, '95.- (2) Number of Sunday arrests for drukenness diminished one-half: Roosevelt in Forum, Sept., '95.- (3) Work of hospitals on Monday as a result of drunken brawls diminished one-half: Ibid.- (4) Work of city magistrates correspondingly decreased in Monday sessions: Ibid.- (5) Felonies decreased one a day during Roosevelt administration: Ibid.- (6) Enforcement of the law would drive a large number of the saloon keepers out of business: Independent, Aug. 29, '95, p. 11. McClure...
...hunger; he is still suffering and in need of sympathy. There are three classes of people whom the Salvation Army means to labor for. The first is the destitute, hungry and distressed; those who are forced from poverty to live in the slums. The second is the vicious and drunken class. We should give to these certainly as much sympathy as we would give to a fallen animal. If a horse falls in the street, there are many willing hands to help him up. These vicious people in the slums are fallen, but they can be helped to rise...
...voice, heard throughout the Bible. It says, God is law, and law is God. True happiness is not reached by self-service but by self-sacrifice. Success does not consist of so much power or so much wealth. Alexander listened to the tempter's voice and died in a drunken bout at thirty-three. It brought Caesar the assassin's knife, and gave Napoleon St. Helena. Jay Gould died hating the whole world and hated...