Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were several versions of what happened next. According to one, the nudes simply giggled, waved to friends, acknowledged admiring whistles, and claimed that their drunken friends had forgotten to bring their costumes. In a gesture of respectability the police took their names, but did not bother to turn them in. At the end of the parade, the float was pulled over and the girls grabbed by gallant or lecherous onlookers...
...Rican, walked into a Times Square subway station. There were only a dozen people in the echoing cavern, but one of them-a huge, slack-faced man-was drunk. As he reeled and mumbled, the rest watched him nervously. Suddenly they shrank back against the shiny, tile walls; the drunken man was twirling a revolver. He swung around, his eyes full of cunning, and threw his free arm around the neck of the man nearest to him-which happened to be Hector Orta. The big man pushed the revolver against the little man and fired. He fired twice more. Later...
...Weisgal and Marie Heath. Weisgal raged eleverly on as Hector Rigoletto, male witch extraordinaire, Abelard, and Aristotle; but the real orchids must be saved for Mrs. Heath, who gave a delightfully British performance as Emma Seruple-Madison and brought the show to its humorous climax with a skillfully executed drunken laugh, spin, and fall...
...Iceman Cometh. Eugene O'Neill's extremely long, not especially deep, but often vividly theatrical tale of drunken bums whose pipe dreams are their salvation (TIME...
...HAVEN--Nov. 22--More light was shed on Yale drinking habits today, when the New Haven police blotter this evening showed "three men from the local college" booked on two counts, "drunken assault and subversive activities...