Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ultrashort waves pass through the atmosphere beyond the horizon, they encounter a constantly varying complex of atmospheric conditions. They are bent, reflected, shifted with every change in the constantly shifting atmosphere, like spray from a hose in the hands of a drunken gardener. Such waves hit a receiving antenna beyond the horizon only sporadically and by accident. The Zworykin invention, using two receiving antennae hooked up to a single receiving station, and an automatic device to match the wave length at the transmitter and receiver to the atmospheric conditions of the moment, is designed to assure unbroken, even, ultra-high...
Haled into court in Milwaukee, Wis., for drunken driving, Henry Kilps walked a straight line, put his finger to his nose, pronounced hard words. But Henry Kilps's urine showed an alcoholic content of .24%. Fine...
...Corps, U. S. A., stood trial before a general courtmartial. On and behind a pine table were twelve sabres, twelve senior officers. The court had to consider charges that Colonel Giffin: 1) did "maliciously knock the hat off the head of one Joseph Currao [a trucker], thereby precipitating a drunken brawl ... to the scandal and disgrace of the military service"; 2) did visit a residence at Goshen, N. Y., and, being refused admittance, "did then and there willfully create a shameful disturbance ... by trespassing ... in his stocking feet . . . to the scandal and disgrace of the military service...
...Metropolitan Opera House went into a huddle, sent a word of warning to harried Director Heinrich Conried. The grounds for this protest were moral. Its cause was a new opera which had just been given its Metropolitan premiere. In the opera a necrophilic heroine disrobed before her gloating, drunken stepfather, demanding as the price of her strip tease the head of an imprisoned prophet. To the severed head, duly served up on a platter, she made more or less violent love. The plot was Oscar Wilde's, but the opera's composer had italicized its gruesomeness with uncanny...
...mornings later, after the mourners had shot off fireworks, got drunk, said how beautiful the dead boy looked, the body had hideously decomposed. A violin and a guitar played mournfully It Ain't Gonna Rain No More as they started in procession. At the cemetery the drunken schoolmaster, pronouncing a funeral oration, fell into the grave. Nobody laughed. A row of buzzards sat on the fence like undertakers. The violin and the guitar played Yes, We Have No Bananas...