Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diego, Calif., a 56-year-old man was brought before Judge Clarence F. Terry, charged with being drunk & disorderly. He pleaded that he was celebrating his divorce. Judge Terry: "When were you divorced?" Answer: "Twenty-five years ago." Upshot: $10 fine...
Last half of the story shows Jerry, 20 years later, now head of the bank, long since dutifully married to a good, dull wife. Determined that his five children shall have the things he missed-a decent allowance and tolerant understanding-he successfully conceals his shock when they get drunk, when his oldest son confesses to having a mistress. With heroic effort he swallows his chagrin when his favorite daughter goes off to Hollywood, returns pregnant but unmarried. But when two of his children confess they are Reds...
Central character of the book is a mournful defrocked priest, who, as a result of his many beatings, humiliations, neuroses, pathetic romanticizing, venereal disease and terror, gradually reaches a mental state indistinguishable from his delirium tremens when drunk. The crew use him as a butt, let up on him slightly when he is half dead. Once they find a substitute outlet in a fantastic rat-hunt-the high point of Sandemose's grotesque humor...
...mornings later, after the mourners had shot off fireworks, got drunk, said how beautiful the dead boy looked, the body had hideously decomposed. A violin and a guitar played mournfully It Ain't Gonna Rain No More as they started in procession. At the cemetery the drunken schoolmaster, pronouncing a funeral oration, fell into the grave. Nobody laughed. A row of buzzards sat on the fence like undertakers. The violin and the guitar played Yes, We Have No Bananas...
Walter was the only person aboard the Yukoner who wholeheartedly enjoyed his trip. When the crew got out of jail in Dawson (the piracy case was allowed to die because of international complications), all members immediately went on a drunk, spent their year's wages. Because of complications arising from the bankruptcy, Walter was not paid. He did not mind...