Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when tubby, profligate Sultan Ahmad, Shah of Persia, was debauching along the French Riviera French newsorgans came out with the old French proverb: La mdt tous les chats sont gris. This means literally: "At night all cats are grey." A punning interpretation is: "At night all Shahs are drunk. In 1925 Sultan Ahmad Shah was toppled off the throne, and swashbuckling, self-made Reza Shah Pahlavi declared himself the King of Kings. From the outset he pompously made it clear that his country would stomach no further insults of the drunken Shah variety. Last year the King of Kings...
Tamer In Buffalo, N. Y., on his day off Lion Tamer John Taylor, 66, was picked up by Patrolman Howard Leininger who reported that he was "drunk and nasty and ferocious and snarled." Tamer Taylor confessed that when he got drunk he couldn't feed the lions because he wasn't "quick enough." Said the judge: "You'd better . . . take to feeding rabbits." Blast In Fairview, 111., a keg of wet blasting powder was lugged into the house of Albert Taylor, 61, to dry beside a stove. As Taylor sat down to dinner with his wife...
...young husband Sergei Essenine, Russian poet, she flitted from hotel to resort for temperamental months. Because Isadora could speak only pidgin Russian and Essenine could speak no English, Lola's principal function was to act as interpreter, often in uncomfortably intimate scenes. When one day Essenine got drunk and insisted on going out for a walk by himself to get away from women, there was a fierce quarrel. Lola was made the scapegoat, lost that...
...masked man through the glass. "I'll get my air rifle,'" he cried, starting for the stairs. A crash of glass stopped him in his tracks, A moment later the masked man was in the room brandishing a revolver. Billy thought the man was crazy or drunk when he made exaggerated gestures with the revolver, shouted: "Don't you kids try anything, because I'm wearing a bullet-proof vest." As he muttered incoherently, the man stepped up to Billy, searched his pockets...
...will travel for a time abroad and ultimately be given another Chinese Army under the Generalissimo. Joy in China at the happy ending of the crisis reached such transports that even that uncompromising teetotaler, "The Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, announced as a matter of national moment, "I have drunk a full glass of wine, toasting the deliverance of the Generalissimo...