Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Head. In Louisville, fined $100 for drunken driving, Albert B. Rhodes denied that he had touched a drop, explained that "my wife had been drinking at a dance we attended, and I kissed her a couple of times...
Fragile Fox (by Norman Brooks) is a competent, routine thriller about World War II. It tells, in the italics of melodrama, of a company-commanded by a craven, drunken, swaggering captain-that is suddenly thrown into the Battle of the Bulge. Loathed by his men, the captain gets by with his ambition-ridden colonel because he is the son of an influential political boss in the colonel's home state. To the rumble of tanks and the rat-tat-tat of gunfire, the gutless captain wobbles, crosses up his men, plots...
...Insist ... In Detroit. Claude Berry was given ten days for drunken driving, despite his insistence that "three masked men grabbed me. pulled a knife and forced a lot of whisky down my throat. That's how I got drunk...
Libby Holman's private life has given her a right to sing the blues. In 1931 she married 20-year-old Z. (for Zachary) Smith Reynolds, heir to a $28 million cigarette (Camels) fortune. Eight months later, he was shot through the head at a drunken party. With a splash of tabloid headlines, Libby and Reynolds' male secretary were indicted for murder, then freed for lack of evidence. Six months after his father died, Christopher Smith ("Topper") Reynolds was born. He inherited $7,000,000 (Libby...
...staff had to record the remaining reactions as "No comment." Some of them were unfit for publication in a family newspaper, but in the majority of cases the offended individual merely stared at us much as a pinched female Saltonstall might regard a drunken male Murphy, and stalked off muttering something about public education going too far. Reprinted in entirety from the Cornell Daily Sun, October...