Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, the drunken sailors became "our boys." In a savage little cartoon, Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard revived memories of vicious Japs in World...
Delayed Reaction. In Van Nuys, Calif., Ironworker Elba Virgil Norton, 32, failed to convince police, who arrested him for drunken driving, when he insisted: "I am not drunk. I'm just still shaking from the earthquake...
...Tale-the story of the three young roisterers who went looking for Death. They seize an old man and mockingly demand that he tell them where Death can be found. He assures them that he has seen Death, that very day, down the road, under an oak tree. With drunken bravado, they march to the tree and find, to their amazed delight, a pile of gold florins. But the old man was right, too. Since the three decide they cannot haul their treasure home in daylight, they send the youngest back to town for bread & wine. No sooner...
...with fine, soft tones and a master's spare line. Moreover, the public never saw the drawings that Keene did as studies for his cartoons. These were hurried little sketches scratched out on scraps of paper and backs of envelopes: dumpy old ladies sitting spraddled with fatigue, a drunken man slumped in a chair, London swells leaning languidly against a bar. Each took but a few skilled lines and shadows to get across the hunch of a shoulder, the gnarled stiffness of old limbs, the suppleness of young ones...
...zamindari," wrote the London Economist, "have been Rabindranath Tagore, the poet, Liaquat Ali Khan, the Prime Minister, and the Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram, the cricketer . . . The majority have been as vicious as Thackeray's Lord Steyne, as idle as Jane Austen's Mr. Bennett, and as drunken as a Surtees squire...