Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most part, Miller remembers to be an artist instead of an orator only in the wacky, obscene, and sometimes brilliantly comic passages that make most of his books unmailable-but that will not be found here. Reading Miller in his scurrilous top form is like ending a riotously drunken evening by getting a foot caught in a chamber pot; but such sport cannot be had in this book...
...their contract. It all seemed to have something to do with a case of Scotch in their dressing room. Gary, 26, oldest of the quartet, says he lost his voice, but regained it long enough, during the boys' final set, to call a ringside lady "a drunken bum." Cutting the act very short, the lads fled back to their dressing room, where they bloodied Gary's nose and otherwise clouted him for crabbing the routine. After the bout, Gary rested briefly, then plodded to a nearby bar, expressing a simple sentiment about his hard-knuckled brothers: "I made...
According to Robert Fishman '61, Quincy social chairman, the proposal, the result of a recent poll, represents a break with the College tradition of "risque plays and drunken audiences." "Our play is not ribald, and we have no reason to exclude women," Fishman commented. He added that the idea of building House unity through drinking "went out with high school...
Sweet Smell of Excess. In Spartanburg, S.C., a jury could not decide whether Wilbur Fowler Allison was guilty of drunken driving, despite a cop's word that Allison reeked and was staggering, after Allison's barber swore that he had doused the accused with a 70%-alcohol hair tonic shortly before his arrest...
...third Ford Hall Forum Program of the season at Jordan Hall in Boston, James A. Wechsler, editor of the New York Post, called Nixon an insincere man "who weaves from the right side of the road to the left and should be arrested for drunken driving." He cited the vicePresident's treatment of the Alger Hiss case and his support for negotiations with the Russians as "an example of his twoheaded politics...