Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atencio's impassioned defense of Isaac F. Scoles on a charge of drunken driving was interrupted when Lawyer Atencio was ordered removed from court, later booked for being drunk and disorderly...
Room Service. In East Lansing, Mich., Warren Wood, 33, was charged with drunken driving after his car went out of control, left the highway, crossed a lawn, crashed into a house, bounced through the living room and came to rest in the bedroom two feet from where...
Thimbleful. In Palm Beach, Fla., charged with drunken driving, Caddy Donald Jackson was fined $100 despite his offhand denials: "All I had to drink was five shots of whisky and eight bottles of beer...
...World in the Evening starts with a racket at a drunken Hollywood party; the sound comes from the hero's fists hammering on the roof of a children's doll house, inside which his wife is committing adultery with a movie actor. The book ends in a New York bar with the hero downing his fifth Martini and saying to his now exwife: "Do you know something . . . I really do forgive myself, from the bottom of my heart...
...note deepens with the death and burial of his companion, the dog; it breaks into wild orchestration as the crazed man runs to an echoing valley and there hurls the 23rd Psalm against the ringing hills solely to hear the answering sound of his own distorted voice. In a drunken revel, O'Herlihy re-creates in his cave all the roistering cheerfulness of an Elizabethan pub, but this ends, too, in a disillusion so great that he walks blindly into the surf, bearing aloft a blazing torch. When he drops the brand into the sea, it is as though...