Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood, onetime Cinemactor John Agar, former husband of Shirley Temple, who was still on probation for a 1951 drunken driving conviction, was picked up again. The judge sent him back to jail to finish the 120 days of his original sentence, and promised a further sentence on the new offense...
...were frigid. One group of 128 had enjoyed marriage at first but then developed frigidity, often after having "too many" children. The larger group of 162 had been frigid all their adult lives. Dr. Robertson found that these were the women who as girls had hated a domineering or drunken father, and had clung to mother. As adults, five-sixths of them were still clutching mother's apron strings. And 23% of them developed gallstones...
Another career diplomat, Foy David Kohler, was sharply disciplined by the State Department last week. A competent veteran of 21 years' service, once director of Voice of America and recently assigned to the department's important Policy Planning Staff, Kohler was arrested for drunkenness by Arlington. Va. police early last month. He and his wife Phyllis, motoring home from a party, ran into an Arlington telephone pole; Mrs. Kohler, who was at the wheel, was charged with drunken driving. In the car was Kohler's briefcase, containing secret documents which he was carrying home to study...
...forget the Koran's teachings in the face of such infidel delights. Two years ago one son went on a binge with a neighboring sheik's son, that ended in the latter's death. Another of the old King's sons was involved in a drunken brawl, and Ibn Saud had him publicly flogged...
...tragic story of an old man demoted from the splendor of his position as a doorman at a plush hotel to the ignominy of washroom attendant duty. The scenes of the man clinging pitifully to his braided doorman's coat, counterpointed only by the maudlin humor of a drunken party, play up the pathos of this demotion very effectively. The title refers to a purposely incongruous ending, one which I thought was the film's weakest moment...