Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slightest pretext until there were scores of bodies in the streets. Houses and shops were looted, women raped and the whole city ravaged according to an immemorial custom of war. Even fleeing refugees with whom the Japanese caught up were looted of their belongings. Only after the Japanese soldiers, drunk with victory, had been out of hand for several days did officers get them under control...
...Paris dandies of his day frequently carried sword canes; the Vicomte de Toulouse-Lautrec's cane held liquor. In 1899 he was confined in a sanatorium as an alcoholic, was led out in the company of a guard. After 'Ennry had hobbled back with the guard blind drunk behind him, the guard was changed. In 1901, his health broken from drink, he returned to his mother at the Chateau de Malromé, one of the family's properties near Bordeaux. There, at the age of 36, he died...
...whose reputation is now for the first time involved-beg for the opportunity to return and make good the debts and errors of a youthful stage in the life of an otherwise clean-cut & lovable boy of 27. Since our being together, he has never gambled or drunk-because I never have done either. ... I personally was born & bred in the West-and my reputation is flawless. I desire to know why I am wanted in California -if I am. I beg one chance to prove I can & have changed this boy's habits-and that he is entirely...
Meanwhile Mme Chiang, in her daily column to the U. S. press, radioed from Nanking: "Tokyo's acclamation of Matsui as a hero on Chinese soil has gone to his head . . . strongest wine of militaristic adulation . . . Japanese war lords drunk with their hollow success at Shanghai . . . power lust...
...Marlowe stretched out on the bed and the others, facing him, began playing backgammon. Frizer's dagger was hanging over the back of a chair within Marlowe's reach. Marlowe and Frizer may have argued over the bill. Poley may have been under orders to get Marlowe drunk and kill him. But the coroner's account has it that Marlowe grabbed Frizer's knife, whereupon the blade was turned upon himself, pushed down, entering the flesh above the right eye and plunging two inches into the frontal lobe of a brain that had been, until that...