Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most cases) cross-examine adverse witnesses. But the system does not-and cannot-adhere strictly to judicial principles, with the "defendant" presumed innocent until proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. For guilt in the legal sense is not involved. The idea is not to wait until the drunken employee gives away an important secret; it is to get rid of him beforehand...
Past Master. In Sidney, Neb., former County Attorney Jack Knicely agreed to appear in a drunken-driving case representing Defendant Dale Anderson, whom he had twice successfully prosecuted on drunken-driving charges...
...story holds pretty true to Orwell. Manor Farm is run by a drunken brute named Jones. One day the animals, incited by a wise old Middle White boar, revolt and drive Jones out. The pigs, being the most intelligent of the animals, assume the leadership of a communal democracy based on the precept: All Animals Are Equal. The most prominent pigs are Snowball and Napoleon. Napoleon drives Snowball off the farm and seizes absolute power. As time goes by, the pigs get to look more and more like people until at last, as Orwell put it, "it was impossible...
Lesser Evil. In Portsmouth, Ohio, Judge Lowell Thompson dismissed a drunken-driving charge against Robert Fortenberry, 32, after hearing Fortenberry's explanation: in his home state of Georgia, police confiscate an auto if liquor is found in it, so rather than lose his new car after a traffic mishap, he drank the half-pint of whisky he had under the seat...
With its entertainers stretched from one end of Cinemascope to the other, There's No Business Like Show Business bristles with fast-paced song and dance routines that drag only when the projectors grind Marilyn Monroe across the screen. She is usually followed by a drunken Donald O'Connor, intent on being a nimble bad boy who dances with statues after Marilyn tires of the whole business...