Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love, but she never liked me. ... She would drink all night and drag me out of bed at 4 in the morning to tell me if I'd die she would have all my money. . . . I'd go to her room and she'd be drunk and mistreat me, throwing up to me that I was a love child...
...stalked around the ring watching the bobbing head and flailing elbows of Uzcudun. waiting for the moment when the Spaniard's jaw would offer a fleeting target. The moment finally arrived. The blow that ended the fight was the sort that a fat bartender lays into an objectionable drunk. Its progress was slow, inevitable, evident to all present. It laid Uzcudun flat on his back. It also opened his cheek, drove one of his teeth through...
...diary Francis Parkman tells of a Freshman "spree": "None got drunk, but all got merry. First the champagne disappeared, then the Msdeira, and the whisky would have, had it not been for the inexhaustible supply. They staged a war dance in the middle of the Common and uttered scalp yells...
...going to get sodden drunk so Mother will know how it looks and will stop her drinking," said Jesse Lauriston Livermore Jr., 16, schoolboy son of the famed stock market trader, when he returned to his mother's home at Montecito, Calif., late Thanksgiving evening. In the big pink stucco house Mrs. Dorothea Livermore, who divorced Trader Livermore in 1932, was giving a drinking party. Son Jesse began downing a quart of whiskey. Screamed tipsy Mrs. Livermore: "I'd rather see you dead than drinking!" Son Jesse lurched into another room, returned with one of the guns...
...store of bricks he could not sell. At the same time Ma Hopper, who thought Shackle was not good enough for her daughter, separated them, and Shackle found his girl back in Pewee's arms. He got an old shotgun and started to town to kill them all. Drunk with grief and fatigue, crying, Shackle stumbled along the road, talking to himself...