Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Newman and Joe Cunningham, roustabouts with a traveling carnival, went drinking together in Greenville, S.C. They got into a drunken quarrel, and Newman stabbed Cunningham to death. Last week Circuit Judge J. B. Pruitt sentenced Newman, 23, to two years in jail for manslaughter. In imposing the minimum sentence (maximum under South Carolina law: 30 years), Pruitt told the defendant, a white man, that he deserved to do time for drinking with Cunningham, a Negro. "God made us different," said the judge. "You could have found some white people to associate with...
Beverage List. In Milwaukee, Clarence L. Drinkwater was fined $100 for drunken driving after he had loaded up on beer and whisky at a milkmen's picnic...
...play's final scene, when Miss Steele and Michael Laurence find a moment of self-understanding under the spell of the island moon and their own love, is well done. Their conversation outside while a drunken party rages in the house is particularly effective, and the scene is marred only by a curtain that falls too long after they find themselves stymied in their attempt to escape, and are forced to return to their former lives...
...income from an $85,000 farm left by her father, she became a prostitute, picking up men in bars, giving $2 apiece to cab drivers who brought customers to her. She charged $20 a night. Neighbors complained of wild parties in her home. Several months ago, in a drunken scuffle, she shot a traveling salesman in the wrist; he declined to prosecute. Bonnie Heady was just the girl for Carl Hall. He moved in with...
...Defense Rests. In Raleigh, N.C., charged with drunken driving, Lawrence N. Davis told the judge that his car had been weaving only because it needed repairs, then proudly added: "I am one of the best drunken drivers in [the] county...