Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gumshod. In Knoxville, Tenn., Curtis E. Thomas, arrested for drunken driving, insisted that he had only taken a little whisky for a toothache, paid a $50 fine when the court learned that he had. no teeth...
...Jack Bender of Chicago, practicing with real bullets in his Buntline Special model, accidentally shot and killed his 14-month-old son (whom he had named Wyatt Earp). They quickly pointed out that he was not affiliated with any club. Cried Dillon: "Anyone using live ammunition is like a drunken driver. He is simply asking for trouble...
PART OF A LONG STORY, by Agnes Boulton. Eugene O'Neill's second wife describes just a year and a half of her life with genius, but she makes it memorable. Great drunken sprees were wedged between great plays, and melodrama was always just around the living-room door...
Broken Field. In Toledo, Taxi Driver Elmer Bittow was convicted of drunken driving after sheepishly admitting that he had driven his cab 26 miles south down the northbound lane of the Detroit-Toledo Expressway...
Tarnished Copper. In Copenhagen, Inspector Povl Brondt, 51, Denmark's traffic-police chief, lost his right to drive for one year and got a 14-day jail sentence for drunken driving...