Word: drunker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis is a problem for administrative officials and undergraduates alike to worry about. Direct prohibition would prove no more effective than it did as a national law. Those students who would benefit most by the curtailment of drinking would only consider such a move a direct challenge to get "drunker than ever...
...brother, bothered about stealing money to play the market, takes ship for South America. His father commits suicide because he learns that his wife is misbehaving. Mean Mrs. Nordholm calls up her lover but he is too distressed by losses to aid in her crisis. Uncle Nordholm gets drunker than usual and insults a prelate. To top it all, the whole affair reminds Grandfather Nordholm (Paul Muni) of the day his wife went crazy so he dies also, of a heart attack...
...prosecution no further. But Harvard authorities planned to deal with the vandals, probably expel them. Said Vandal Merriman: "It is no use to say I am sorry. Sorry is not the word. Nothing can express it." Said Vandal Jenkins: "We were drunk at the time and as we became drunker we lost all sense of the seriousness of the things we were doing. I was not actuated by spite at Groton. . . . My record there was good...