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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unanimous-consent agreement from the Senate he must, in addition to the leaders who have been referred to, get the consent of the new members of the Senate, taking into consideration the fact that within the last half hour each one of them has gone out and drunk three cups of coffee, which will enable them to stay here for another twelve hours while the Senator from Louisiana speaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Feet to Fire | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...when he saw smoke seeping from the Iroquois Theatre. Up through a sidewalk grating crawled a blackened figure in stage costume, then another & another. They gasped a few words about the carnage inside. Cub Howey dashed into a saloon next door, telephoned his editor (who was certain Howey was drunk), paid the bartender $5 to tie up the telephone, one of the few in the neighborhood. When the day was over, boxcar headlines were screaming "736 DEAD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst's Howey | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

...didn't like their English school. She took them home and got a divorce. Meantime Tom's mistress was going haywire and ruining a good chance in Hollywood because he had cast her off. Tom, feeling pretty much put upon by these events, got all broody and drunk. Luckily for Tom's peace of mind and Author Bromfield's cinemarty ending, the girl who had given his house its sentimental associations appeared at this point-buxom and widowed now, but bristling with Gallic sense. She gave Tom a good talking to, sent him back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boasting | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

...drink to him and you may drink with him, but you will have to be drunk before you vote for him at the next election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shame v. Shame | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...Indianapolis, trying to arrest three blind men, Rex Overman, Charles Bennett and Ray Johnson, who had gotten drunk in a hotel room with two women, police had their faces clawed, broke one blind man's head open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 13, 1935 | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

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