Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Part Two of Plievier's story picks up Wenzel, again flat broke, in another South American port. He wanders into the waterfront dive run by Milly, a "shark" who helps shanghai drunken sailors into freighter crews. Wenzel's young face and smooth muscles soften Milly's heart; as she liquors up a crew for a wretched guano ship, she decides to save him for herself. But Wenzel refuses the favor and takes his place with his tricked and sodden buddies...
...errands. Panteleimon Ponomarenlco, 49, also a member of the party secretariat; chief food stockpiler; former Premier of his native White Russia and billiard champion there. Matvey Shkiryatov, 68, Old Bolshevik (joined in 1906); for 30 years Stalin's man on the Party Control Commission; Trotsky called him "slightly drunken...
...your Feb. 19 story of the Chicago woman who survived a body temperature of below 64° F., after being frozen to death (almost) while in a drunken stupor...
...Dennis Morgan and Gary Cooper as they happened to walk past a murder-suicide on the way to the studio, headlined it FILM STARS GO TO SCENE OF LONELY HEART MURDER-SUICIDE. The Los Angeles Daily News had played the story of a "former movie star" involved in a drunken brawl. Reagan discovered that the woman referred to had played a bit part in a movie as a child...
...Mama was terrified" when Flo Nightingale announced she wanted to be a nurse. In 1845, any mother would have felt the same way. Nurses were dirty, drunken, promiscuous. Florence Nightingale would change all that as she was to change many things. British army privates in their fetid barracks, smug bureaucrats in the musty War Office, viceroys in palaces were all to feel the reach of her will and missionary zeal...