Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Duels at Dawn. In Author Dinesen's stories-recalling E.T.A. Hoffmann and the famed Tales of Hoffmann - Judas Iscariot can be met jingling his silver in a igth century Neapolitan tenement; drunken officers duel at dawn and an artist dies nobly before a firing squad; a king and a poet argue the night through while a bored prostitute awaits their attention. The intricate plots are played out against lovingly evoked backgrounds -fur-blanketed sleds race over the midnight snow of Copenhagen; the golden sun of Italy flashes from white villa to blue...
Correa was fined for drunken driving and received the suspended sentence for reckless driving. His car was going about 40 miles an hour, according to police officials...
Shuffled Along. In Tulsa, arrested for drunken driving just after he had finished a game of shuffleboard, Corby Adams was declared not drunk when the court learned that he had won the game...
...brandish the pregnancy of his third wife, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor. Item: at the première, piqued when distinguished guests were tardy, Todd rushed his wife to a chair, crying for all to hear: "What would you do if your wife was pregnant?" Item: at the party, a drunken guest teetered against Liz. Todd seized the sot, pushed him to the edge of the lake. "My wife is pregnant," he choked. "Will you please be a gentleman?" Liz allowed she might have the baby on the spot, hoped it would be a girl, "because I don't know whether...
...Vats Veritas. In Chicago, Andrew Mulligan, charged with drunken driving, was freed when he explained that police had arrested him just after he had worked eight hours cleaning brewery vats...