Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corner saloons. I am unable to see as striking a difference in the University. There is, as a matter of fact, not as much obvious drunkeness as there was 20 years ago. But at that time," Professor Carver added, "it was declining anyway. I have not seen a drunken student in five years...
...drink than any of the European countries where liquor is freely sold. The idea that this is the only country where alcoholism is a great problem is a pure fallacy. In fact this is the only country where it is not. We hear a great deal about bootleggers and drunken students in America, but do we hear of families being broken up any more as a result of drink...
...Were diverted by a tale of a drunken fisherman at an English seaside, resort who successfully sued for libel an authoress who had described a drunken fisherman of that resort in one of her novels without so much as mentioning his name. Lord Gorrell told the story, attached to it a moral in the shape of a bill to protect writers from such obviously "put up" libel suits. Sharply criticised, he withdrew the measure for revision...
...years old. He was handsome, beardless?"a pretty stripling," reared by a fussily ambitious mother and a vain, weak father never to forget the contingency that if Elizabeth died childless he was heir to the English throne. Within a month Darnley had shown himself to be a selfish, inconstant, drunken roisterer, vicious and contemptible. A hired assassin could have murdered Rizzio, her Italian diplomatist, but to discredit Mary, Darnley was persuaded to have it done of his own will, at the very door of her chamber in Holyrood. "Well, ye have taken the last of me, and so, farewell...
Sylvia appears in the camp to torture him afresh. Her incredible malice brings about a bedroom scene where he strikes a drunken general in pajamas. For the troops' morale he must be removed, but still he will not clear his name, will not "blab." "There used to be," he tells his own superior, an old friend, "in families of position, a certain ... on the part of the man ... a certain . . . call it parade...