Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several of my friends inferred from the way this paragraph was written that Jafsie was drinking if not drunk in Jack Dempsey's "saloon" that night after the fight. Such is far from fact...
...tender Quaker who rebuilt human Belgium and France, who rebuilt and re-established the lives of the families of his late enemies, be an angry man? Could the untiring diplomatist and spiritual servant who never let one strand of his delicate relationships between militarists and nationalists and intriguers, drunk warlords and war-led, sadists, sentimentalists, victors and victims be endangered by his own indignations-could that be a man given to the passion of anger? . . . You might as effectively speak of an angry Lincoln or an angry Christ himself as an angry Hoover...
Died, moved, eloped, been ill, sold out, sold hogs, been shot, been born, had a baby, been drunk, been gypped, had a fight, broken a leg, had a party, caught cold, been robbed, had company, been married, bought a car, been visiting, broken an arm, been courting, been divorced, been arrested, stolen anything, gone bughouse, lost your hair, had a birthday, had an anniversary, been bitten by a snake, had an accident, cut a new tooth or had an operation- Get in touch with a representative of the Gazette...
...position is unmistakable; it is also understandable. In the hands of such a phenomenally honest and efficient commissioner it can easily be justified. The courts have failed repeatedly to convict known gangsters, aided by shyster lawyers and self-contradictory law. These gentlemen have walked the streets, danced and drunk in the night clubs, and played golf on the municipal links without the twitch of n eye-lash-surrounded by music men and what the press euphemistically calls. "female companions". Extra-legal methods are the obvious reaction of a conscientious police commissioner to such conditions...
...happy Vagabond has drunk of the magic Soma today and is off to hear more about it and the "Rig Veda" from Professor Clark at 11 in Harvard...