Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drunk...
...very hard," continued the Registrar, as he changed to the subject which is causing his department the most trouble today, "to judge when a driver is intoxicated. The famous definition of Judge Dewey, who later landed in an insane asylum, which stated that he is drunk who falls to the floor and cannot rise to drink some more' is adhered to by some of our magistrates, while others swing the opposite way and rule a driver intoxicated if he had had a single drink...
...crape arm band and black stovepipe hat was significant. On hearing the glorious rumor, he swung off the street car and bustled toward Cathedral Square, where the first troops were expected to arrive, puffing: "The first soldier I get my hands on is going to get as cockeyed-drunk at my expense as I did when I was a soldier in 1914-and I'm going to get cockeyed with him. Heil Hitler! Thanks be to God. Deutschland über Alles...
Beer was practically the only beverage used during the college's first century. Fifty-five undergraduates, consumed on the average of 270 barrels of beer a year. It was drunk at all meals as water was considered unwholesome. Breakfast known as "morning bever" consisted of beer and a chunk of bread. "Afternoon bever" preceded prayers at five o'clock in the afternoon...
...sensitive, goodhearted, naive. Before long Isabelle finds herself becoming very fond of him. But the crowd that buzzes around him, dedicated to "wealth, unchastity, and disobedience to all standards," she finds increasingly hard to bear. Marc has one vice, gambling. One bad evening at Le Touquet he gets drunk, starts to play. Because it is the only way to stop him Isabelle makes a ghastly scene which costs her a miscarriage. After a weary convalescence she decides to leave Marc and marry a young painter who is just her sort. But at the last minute she finds she cannot leave...