Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last, long-drawn-out day of Frankie's childhood is highlighted not by a picture show, but by one of the few dramatic incidents in the novel-Frankie's narrow escape from a drunken soldier. The rest of The Member of the Wedding is devoted to an uncertain child's private meanderings through a stewing hot summer day, when the old ways and excitements have ceased to have meaning, and the most familiar streets and houses have lost their familiar look; when the ear catches nothing but sounds that are incomplete, and the eye is deceived...
...with a traveling salesman. Thereupon her father began to lose his wits, finally cut his throat with a razor. Her grandfather was popped into a sanatorium for alcoholics; her uncle still languished in the state penitentiary. The relatives who raised Susan were "a whole gibbering pack of unknowns, all drunken, all semi-criminal, all diseased." Prudish Susan was so overcome by the "beautiful luxury of grief" in telling this hideous tale that she burst into tears. Slick only poured more molasses on his flapjacks. But, in the middle of the night, he suddenly turned to Susan and said: "I must...
Pillbox Mailbox. In Evergreen Bluff, Mich., Allen Chesbro, after five successive wooden mailboxes had been flattened by drunken drivers, built No. 6 on a 15-in. steel beam, buttressed by 16 tons of concrete, guarded by a 130-lb. rail, topped off by an ominous replica of a blockbuster bomb...
...used to: baby chicks which had to be tended at least every three hours and spent most of their time trying to stick their little boneheads into drinking fountains so that they drowned; getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning; bears and cougars; syphilitic Indians; drunken Indians who once paid her a threatening visit when she was alone at night; Author MacDonald got rid of them by grabbing a gun and shouting in her fright: "Shi'll oot!" [I'll shoot! ] which she thinks must be Indian...
...lurking doorless and unlovely" near the porch. Once she ventured to wonder why the Kettles, who had a good stream, did not install a bathroom. Maw Kettle was incensed: "And have every sonofabitch that has to go, traipsin' through my parlor? When we start spendin' money like drunken sailors, it won't be for no lah-de-dah toilet...