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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are many kinds of school spirit. Some people wear huge W's on their watch fobs" some go to all the football games, and even contribute a fullback or two; many more content themselves with getting drunk when the occasion demands. Mr. Pereles did none of these things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOOL SPIRIT: GRADE A | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

...Jeez, I'm drunk! I guess I don't know where I am!" Apparently the fellow was resourceful; but probability was added to his statement net only by his evident discomfiture, but by the fact that he was working with the lights turned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burglar Discovered in Wigglesworth Room by Inhospitable Freshman | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

...survey was to stop drivers at selected points on the streets, ask them to blow up small balloons. The breath-filled balloon was then tested for alcohol on a "drunkometer" developed by Indiana University Medical School's Dr. R. N. Harger. One driver was willing but too drunk, huffed & puffed on the balloon but could not fill it. Helplessly he turned to his wife and said: "Honey, you finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Tipsy Drivers | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...British soldier, he won a farm in Kenya in a lottery after the War, ran it for ten years, with intermissions of mountain climbing, big game hunting, gold mining. As a coffee planter he made a classic pact with his partner ("that master and man should not both get drunk on the same day"). He made a trip across Africa by bicycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: African Mountaineer | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...star in the Broadway heavens, that she should shake the call of duty to her career and her family. His main hurdle lies in showing her what leeches and rodents are her family, which she keeps in antiques and good liquor. Success is his, by means of a rousing drunk, Hollywood's perennial ice-breaker, which occupies most of the picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

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