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...average night, orders get larger the later people request the wings, Mello says, because people ordering food tend to get drunker and drunker. One late night, he recalls, "everyone calling us up was incoherent...

Author: By Vindu P. Goel, | Title: Late Night Munchies Never Tasted So Good | 12/12/1986 | See Source »

...alcohol gives. Just after he returned to New York, he learned that a woman who had served in the U.S.O. on Adak was living in Manhattan. He asked her out for dinner and nightclubbing. They began the evening in midtown and drank their way to Harlem. As Hammett got drunker, he became louder, ruder, and more talkative. Finally, at nearly five in the morning, his date had had enough, and she asked him to call her a cab so she could go home. When he refused, she hailed a cab herself. As she was entering the - car, Hammett begged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: He Was His Own Best Whodunit | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...Rioting became commonplace for reasons that were partly economic (depressions that put artisans out of work or immigration that put them in competition with cheaper labor), partly religious (Catholics, Masons and Mormons were attacked and their buildings burned), partly political (the early anti-slavery agitation), and partly sporting (the drunker members of volunteer fire companies enjoyed pitched battles on their way to or from a conflagration). As many as a thousand lives may have been lost to mob action in the decades preceding the Civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...couple of weeks. I learned to be very independent." He retired from the Army in grand style in 1930, she claims. "He hit his commanding general over the head with a riding crop at the officer's club-we never did know which was drunker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Dita Beard on Dita Beard | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...with the group. Two weeks ago at Jack's, he was joined by Bonnie Raitt on guitar and vocals, an unidentified conga player, and innumerable walk-on harpists and pianists. No one seemed to mind the rough edges to the music produced by this informality; in truth, the drunker and looser the Montgomery band gets, the better the show becomes for all concerned...

Author: By Charles Allan, | Title: Blues in a Bottle | 3/9/1972 | See Source »

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