Word: drunks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expect to see that distant day, but most of us know that for us it is impossible. But whether we join in it or not, those who shall commemorate are to be our brethren, united by that bond of fraternity whose mystic cords draw together all who have drunk at this fountain. Their voices as our own, when they meet and part, will utter their salutation to our beloved university, "Salve, magna Parens!" The Boston Herald
...succeeds, clearing up a nice domestic mess (spoiled child, neurotic sister, filching servants, and all) on the side, only to find that she is a wife in name only. Julia's efforts to shake her husband out of his stodgy absorption in business finally succeed in a grand drunk at the expense of the butler's supply of Scotch. If half your pleasure in the late lamented Harvard football season was the drunks in the stands, weep no more, for here is a lovely one. It all ends with a ride, at the conclusion of which everybody gathers around...
...room only two hours before the body was found. Perplexed, the policemen hunted the man with whom Mrs. Harlass had been living, a butcher named Frisch. Frisch said he had not seen his mistress for two days, had spent the time in "night clubs." He had obviously been drunk. Asked if he would take scopolamine to refresh his memory, he agreed. Frisch was taken to a hospital, given four hypodermic injections of 1/150 grains each. For three hours he was incoherent. Then he revealed that he had downed several drinks with Mrs. Harlass, tried to quiet her when she became...
Everything is so simple. President Roosevelt is a Doctor; business is a naughty college boy who went on a drunk; now he wants to go on another drunk, so he's discrediting the doctor who saved him, O Business, blush at your ingratitude...
...night last week I was at a house and drunk and a-lay across the bed and Coonhunter laid down aside me and went through my pockets and took my pocketbook with six cents and my keys. Last night it was I got to thinkin' about this and the longer I thought the madder I got because I needed my keys about unlockin' things. Here I was unable to get into my place without crawlin' in the window. I lived there and I had a right nice place. I had me a hot plate and as good...