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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a statement shows either that John L. believes he is now in a position in which he does not need any New England friends or that he is so drunk with power that he does not care about political slip-ups. In either case, it will not be suprising if the C.I.O. finds a little hard sledding from now on in organizing the State of Maine, as well as the other New England states which look with friendly eyes toward the Pine Treemen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AS MAINE GOES. . . . | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...respiratory ailments. The hospital's standing invitation reads: "Suitable patients may be referred to the hospital by physicians and others who are interested. . .". An ambulance will be sent when necessary." But not many doctors want to surrender their patients to the Rockefeller Institute Hospital. Sometimes an East Side drunk wanders in. Sometimes a motor car strikes a pedestrian outside the Institute's park and he gets first aid in the hospital. But usually the medical staff have lots of time for the serene preoccupations of Science, are agitated upon rare occasions by the visit of a curious Rockefeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: At Rockefeller Hospital | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...thounsand Harvard undergraduates, many of them drunk, attacked early today a girls' school"-- so ran the lead sentence in the London Daily Express story of the riot here two weeks ago. Although Harvard was spoken of as "America's Number One University," the battle put up by Radcliffe was featured throughout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: London Daily Express Column Carries Exaggerated Story of Recent Riot Here | 5/18/1937 | See Source »

...William Brown, who brandished his umbrella at the mobsters, and 50 policemen who overawed the crowd with their drawn revolvers. Fifteen citizens and soldiers were killed that day. Next thing Baltimore knew, Federal guns were staring from Federal Hill, and the city was under the thumb of officious, punch-drunk General Benjamin ("Beast") Butler. A warm Southern sympathizer and States' rights man. Publisher Abell had his choice of keeping editorially mum or being deprived of his newspaper, thrown in jail. He kept mum. While even Union sympathizers were being jailed by the military in unhappy Baltimore, the Government watched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Century of Suns | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...Obstacles to their coalition and therefore to Tweep's and Dinwiddy's are: 1) efforts of Store Manager Truelove Spencer (Grady Sutton) to annex the girl himself; 2) Miss Tweep's cynical attitude toward astrology; 3) Dinwiddy's inability to establish his identity when arrested, drunk, for breaking up the sporting goods department with a shotgun. Love and astrology are finally correlated at a store party, assisted by music from Phil Harris & Kenny Baker, a lovely dance by Miss Whitney and some low camera ballet legs. Best bit part: Romo Vincent's imitation of Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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