Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Testing. In Columbus, Ohio, Walter Doring, chief chemist for the State Department of Liquor Control, was found guilty of drunken driving...
Point of View. In Milwaukee, on trial for drunken driving, Anton Schmalz, 62, admitted that he had been drinking Martinis "by the teacupful," but denied that he was drunk when arrested, explained that he had been forced to zigzag his car down the street "to dodge all the drunken drivers" coming at him from the opposite direction...
...Undoing. In Long Beach, Calif., a jury acquitted Adam Thiele of drunken-driving charges after he explained that he had been unable to drive in a straight line because his ears were being tickled by the toes of his small son, riding in the back seat...
Prior Commitment. In East Chicago, Ind., officials got an explanation from James R. Duffy, 42, who said he had been unable to appear in court to answer a drunken-driving charge because he had been jailed in nearby Valparaiso, on a drunken-driving charge...
Borge's format is simple. Looking like a drunken Viking, he announces his numbers, then plays the piano; for two and a half hours, the audience doesn't stop laughing. Nothing could be duller than trying to analyze his humor-he has perfect timing, taste, and talent, and that is enough...