Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newspapers? When we have been dead a hundred years, my honorable friend, then it will be decided with the greatest of precision what we are. . . . Prepare an order expunging from regimental conversation such uncouth expressions as "Germans leaked through," "We are surrounded," "heroic Sevastopol," "drunken enemy" and other such nonsense and forbidding them from being spoken even in a state of intoxication. Do you understand, heroic clerk...
They pooled new ideas on prevention and treatment of alcoholism, totted up a long indictment of the American people for being bad keepers of their drunken brothers...
...verb "to mugg" apparently stems from the dank soil of 19th Century prisons, where "mugger" was synonymous with footpad-"one of the wretched horde who haunt the street at midnight to rob drunken men." Its meaning, as given by the American Thesaurus of Slang: robbery with violence. In New York City muggers usually attack from behind if possible, throwing one arm around the victim's neck, while the assistant muggers frisk the victim...
...writer. One night he was driving alone on Benedict Canyon Road in swank Beverly Hills. His car collided head-on with another driven by Leonora Gershwin, wife of Lyricist Ira Gershwin. Mrs. Gershwin and two women with her were hurt slightly. Scenarist Mankiewicz, unhurt, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, was later released on $500 bond pending a hearing. As news the accident was worth brief mention at most...
After seven years of bucking Hollywood, intense, sensitive, beautiful Cinemactress Frances Farmer, who had never troubled to conform, was in a Los Angeles hospital last week. Given a six months suspended sentence for drunken driving last October, she was hailed to court again last week for getting into a drunken fracas, fought and kicked in the courtroom, was sent away for mental observation...