Word: drunker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yard's Sands Street honky-tonk strip-where all real sailors prayed to go to when they died. Says Mrs. Martha Dimmler, Big Martha to Navymen of three wars who packed the Red Mill Bar: "It used to be that no place in the world had wilder, drunker, more wonderful sailors than...
...people and their exhiliration lends a curious atmosphere of bustle to the preparation of the morning edition. Editors scurry about with a more purposeful air; glancing over A.P. dispatches, composing headlines, running up from the basement to report how much type has been set. And the theatre people act drunker than they are; preening themselves, performing little dances or comic bits with one another, trying to engage editors in their own brand of snappy repartee, joking together about the fatuities of the CRIMSON...
Coward at his best-and there are patches in this somewhat lengthy foolishness when he is not-means dialogue that is blithe and blithery: "'I don't want to go to Jane's,' said Maisie. 'She gets even drunker than I do. The last time I dined there, she sat in a fruit salad.' 'Perhaps she'll do it again if we hurry.' Michael gripped her firmly by the arm. 'Come along.'" Most readers will come along happily enough...