Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago. Brooklyn police picked up a drunk who gave his name as Tom Jensen. He said he was a Danish seaman. While he was serving his ten days in jail, his fingerprints were sent to the Department of Justice's division of criminal identification in Washington. When he was let out, he was promptly clapped back in again, at the request of the Federal Government, as a fugitive from justice...
...above quotation from "Gehenna," the twelfth, which depicts the hell through which the human mind goes to find "consciousness which is pure suffering." The tales are told with an implacable, pseudo-scientific introspectiveness that almost suggests Poe. They are tales of madness, weakness, and failure--of a man half-drunk who succumbs to the temptation to steal some unwanted object is caught, and his life is ruined. ("Impulse"): pathetic souls who laugh insincerely or tell unimportant lies simply to attract interest and who collapse when someone finds them out. The scenes are mostly familiar to local readers--the Harvard club...
That cycle of naughty dramas which began with Twin Beds and lasted through Getting Gertie's Garter and Up In Mabel's Room proved a boon to Hugh O'Connell. He was the drunk who always went to bed in the wrong room. In this time-tested sequence, he proudly recalls one trick which never failed to convulse his audience. Slowly pulling off his pants he would fling them into the chandelier. ''After that," he says, ''I could just lay back and rest for about five minutes." The Racket (1927) and Gentlemen...
...middle course of internationalism, based on lower tariffs and a return to a better gold standard. Right and most necessary are intelligent laws on banking, taxation to redistribute wealth, old age pensions and unemployment insurance. Our present situation is a hangover from the "physical, moral, and financial drunk" we have been on ever since 1914. We need fewer monetary doctors, more hard work, and above all, no more panaceas. Winding up his 272-page warning, Author Warburg offers urbane but left-handed benediction to his onetime chief: "Whether the Roosevelt program leads us to recovery or chaos, to widespread prosperity...
...Manhattan John McCabe was jailed for disorderly conduct when his wife testified: "He came home drunk, struck me, and ate a $5 bill just to aggravate...