Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through our school days. Cannon on the courthouse lawn; a mail-order catalog soldier-with-bayonet in every public park; red paper poppies for sale in the streets; yearly "Conventions" with men in uniforms bowling down Main Street, slapping each other on the back, singing rowdy songs, drunk at the intersection trying to direct traffic with a cardboard whistle. Later, war movies, R. O. T. C. parades, University Gothic towers with memorial plaques, billboards plastered with legless, headless portraits labeled "The Horror of It." June 1935 at last and graduation, and even then commencement speakers shouting "Stand up for peace...
...funny part of university cliques is the way that each despises the other. Your orange-tied aesthete complains to his friends "my dean, that dreadful boat club was drunk again last night. It's not that I mind a man getting drunk, but they're such ANIMALS..." Meanwhile the boat club growls about "that pansy with his Egyptian cigarettes, who never does anything for the college...
...Drunk? Of course they get drunk," cried Charleston's Mayor Maybank, himself a veteran. "We are rehabilitating them and it is a worth-while undertaking." But Reporter McLean found no other local supporters of the camps...
...given it to him "as a token of exceptional friendship.'' The watch was wasted, Frenchmen opined, noted with fresh shrugs that the new colony of U. S. correspondents at Addis Ababa gathered around His Imperial Majesty last week and joined in a solemn toast to Peace drunk in weak...
...prejudices, Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton, in their new history of Brighton, find George IV, while not exactly an ornament to Britain, at least no unmixed Victorian monster. His streak of family insanity "had softened down to a curious, harmless and most effective eccentricity." He was frequently drunk, but no more so than most English aristocrats of that period. His delusions, that he had defeated many butchers and bakers in fistfights, that he had commanded at many a battle, including Waterloo, were merely symptoms of the same madness that had made his old father a raving lunatic. His relations with...