Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just issued his mild endorsement of the cake-eater. Henry Wilton, pompous, ultra-puritanical pillar of the community suffers an attack of amnesia. With all inhibitions medically banished into oblivion, he proceeds to bedazzle himself in loud golf clothes, flirt with boarding house girls, reel off on a drunken spree, precipitate a brawl in the country club, and in other ways prove himself at heart a real, human personality. As a result of this exhibition, he finds himself, on recovery, a nominee for Congress. Evidently, Congress is Mr. Wilton's idea of the ne plus ultra, for he decides...
...Senator's experience must indeed have been harrowing to merit the superlative, for last September he had the trying ordeal of being arrested in Baker, Ore., for drunken and disorderly conduct. Official versions charged that a) he was drunkenly throwing things around in a restaurant, b) he was being fed by two buxom friends at the time of his arrest. (TIME, Sept. 28 THE CONGRESS...
...cigarettes. I might have for the moment in the dashing delightful and all that sort of thing place one reads about in tabloid newspapers coming home on the subway. I wasn't. It is an axiom that the most devilmaycare gesture allowed one now is to get arrested for drunken driving. And one can't buy a car on the pay from staying in nights writing this sort of thing while the Choral Society correlates...
...20th Book of Homer's Odyssey, a minor character, Theoclymenus, exclaims to Penelope's drunken suitors...
...note on the programs mentions in most enlogistic terms the overture, requesting that absolute silence be maintained during its playing. Imagine then our suprise when the audience of Boston's most straight-laced playhouse, the playhouse where a drunken Harvard football team had been refused admittance voiced its displeasure at the undue length of this overture by stamping its feet and clapping its hands long before the conductor had given the final wave of his baton. No steps were taken by the Tremont officials to evict the originators of this original stunt, nor did the burly...