Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Samaritan. In Toledo, a bartender friend kindly bailed out the Rev. Howard B. Pilchard, of the Anti-Saloon League, who had been arrested for drunken driving...
After the Boer War she married a swashbuckling revolutionary named MacBride, who had fought as a major for Oom Paul Kruger. "This man," wrote Yeats later, "I had deemed a drunken, vainglorious lout." And soon after the birth of their son, Maud and Major MacBride were separated. After the Easter Rising in 1916, the major was executed by the British. In 1921, Maud became the first representative of the Free State in Paris. Soon, however, the Free State began to bear down on her beloved Irish Republican Army. Maud resigned her official post. At 70 she was still mounting carts...
...Springfield, Ohio, Autoist Vernon Boyer won an award for being a safe driver, celebrated, was presently arrested for drunken driving...
Reformer. In Fairmont, Minn., James Stewart, who had made stiffer-fines-for-drunken-drivers an important issue in his campaign for justice of the peace, was fined the usual $100 for his own drunken driving...
Just before dawn one morning after that, Mrs. George Kronshein, night supervisor at Brooklyn's Harbor Hospital, telephoned the police. She said that a drunken copper had barged into the nurses' home, mauled her, and then staggered noisily into a women's ward. A patrol car arrived and took the cop away...