Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McKELLAR (continuing): That we saw at least 100 drunken men where we now see one even in the city of Washington, where the law is violated, as we are told...
...City Council was about to approve the measure, one Councilor Jack Salmon, "a breezy fish salesman," arose and denounced Character Barkis as "a silly old pup . . . a drunken rascal with a red nose." Forthwith one Alderman Goode vouched for Barkis' honesty and did not admit his habitual drunkenness; and the deliberations of the Council became audible in the next room...
...similar fate in England. In the Yarmouth town council, it was proposed to name certain highways, Copperfield Avenue, Steerforth Avenue. Peggoty Road, and Barkis Road. One of the more stalwart of the councillors, Jack Salmon, fish salesman by trade, condemned Barkis as a "silly old pup" and a "drunken rascal with a red nose". He spared Steerforth his denunciation only because he did not know the gentleman's reputation...
Public men must be careful. If they become involved in any little fracas, or indulge in a little bit of drunken revelry, they are at once in a scandal which respectable papers, and yellow papers, and scurvy little gum-chewers' sheetlets retail to the public...
...whose journal this book is, has best reason: for 16 years his lungs have harbored ghostly, blood-demanding tubercles. Yet Llewelyn is the cheeriest, takes himself least tragically. He lays life's grim intimacies bravely to heart: a fish taken unawares and frozen fast in black pond ice; a drunken quarryman who compares plowing the deep soil to sailing the sea; a wounded white-breasted hawk staked out for torture by African children; a band of bearded woodcutters hupging a fire that flames scarlet among Alpine snows. The genius of the family, Theodore F. Powys, appears in the journal...