Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slow Cure. In Mesa, Ariz., Justice of the Peace Jack Hunsaker decided that jailing drunken drivers "only works a hardship on wives and children," declared that from now on he would sentence them to church for ten consecutive Sundays...
...visit her husband in jail soon after his capture. Her sister's lover, Salvatore Patteri, whose sudden affluence may or may not have come from a 2,000,000-lire reward paid for Liandru, was killed a short time later as he staggered home from a drunken spending spree. Six more listed victims followed Salvatore; all were shot through the head...
Total Recall. In Oakland. Calif., being booked on a drunken charge, Linshurekolts D. Wrandsgilfabepomcekults told police to just call him Randy...
...Shao apparently forgot about the Babylonians who were appeasing their gods with a genial mild-and-bitter (brewed from wheat and honey) almost 40 centuries earlier, circa 6,000 B.C. Genesis 9:21 notes that after the Flood Noah "drank of the wine, and was drunken." The ancient Egyptians, too, were prodigious tipplers: according to his temple inscriptions, Pharaoh Ramses III (c. 1198-1167 B.C.) personally stood the gods 466,303 jugs of beer...
...lady (Jane Wyman), he is throwing gay first-night penthouse parties, where he croons such ditties as Zing a Little Zong. But Widower Bing is so busy being famous that he is a flop with his teen-age children. His daughter (Natalie Wood) winds up in jail with her drunken governess. His adolescent son (Robert Arthur) resents Bing's critical attitude toward his songwriting attempts, and tries to beat his father's time with Jane Wyman...