Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike his colleague, "Frisky" Merriman, Professor Murdock has refused for several years to act in the annual House play. When he once played a drunken porter who drove the other characters off the stage with a blunderbuss, the audience went wild, and he modestly decided not to tempt fate with another appearance...
Santa Fe's stucco buildings were hung with banners and streamers, decorated with huge, garish masks. The streets were noisy with drunken yells all through the night and far into the morning. New Mexico's City of the Holy Faith was busy last week celebrating La Fiesta, and in no mood to mourn...
...This gang of drunken, filthy swine besmirches the honor of every honest German soldier who lies buried with an Iron Cross on his chest...
...Tanganyika he sketched a woman who had authentically eaten two of her young and he made a drunken safari with Big Boy which lasted only as long as the liquor. He killed one lion, with extreme lack of pleasure. The beaters howled and threatened until they were given candy. Back in the hotel lobby "dying men, full of fever and Scotch, [sat] reading the stale London Times...
Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 51, No. 1 flagpole-sitter of the trivial '20s, has been spending his Sundays in a Connecticut jail for drunken driving. The arrangement keeps him from losing his steeplejack jobs. Of Brenda Frazier's ex-footballer "Shipwreck" Kelly, Alvin says: "I guess there's plenty of room for two of us as long as he don't go climbin' any poles." ∙ ∙ Racing Driver Kelly Carl Petillo, winner of the Indianapolis speedways in 1935, was charged with "suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon" on a Los Angeles cop. Petillo...