Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rate things were moving toward harmony, Mr. Conlon might yet see a parade. In another 257 years he could go out on July 12 and be as safe as a salmon in a drunken Kerryman...
Gael Sullivan, dashing 42-year-old executive director of the Democratic National Committee, dashed around a curve in Rhode Island, tangled fenders with an oncoming car. Booked for drunken driving, he pleaded not guilty...
Repeat Performance (Eagle-Lion) is a melodrama about an actress (Joan Leslie) who kills her drunken playwright husband (Louis Hayward) on New Year's Eve. She wishes that she could live that year over, except for its climax. When she finds her husband alive and as nasty as ever, and everyone else carrying on as if it were exactly a year ago, with no foresight of calamity, she realizes that Fate has granted her wish...
...other folks got madder. Detroit newspapers, which covered Rose City's uproar for all it was worth, discovered that Scott had been arrested in 1931 for drunken driving in Flint, in fact was converted to religion a short three years ago after a nondescript career as a salesman, industrial worker and beer-truck driver...
...while the CABmen watched with narrowed eyes, the DC-4 suddenly lurched and headed for the ground, 4,000 feet below. People on the ground heard an ear-shattering roar from its engines. The doomed plane's drunken glide steepened into a dive. From the vertical it went slightly on to its back, completing part of a wide outside loop. From the CAB plane, the inspectors saw it plunge into a clump of trees, disintegrate in a great cloud of smoke and flying debris...