Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pain it saves the patient today. Yet ether is by no means a perfect anesthetic. Its after effects are notorious, and it must be administered with extraordinary care. Nausea, even heart-failure, follow its use, and the awakening of the anesthetized strongly resembles the writhings of a drunk...
...arrows and darts which in the air made a whistling noise. The chiefs and nobles were polygamous. They ate with their fingers but used finger-bowls. A dead chief was either mummified by fire or buried with his wives and retainers, who prepared for the ordeal by getting as drunk as possible. But of the tons of treasure that went back to Spain, all was melted up or disappeared, and for four centuries no concrete trace of the Coclés came to light. About 30 years ago the Rio Grande de Coclé shifted its course, cut through...
...will recognize bits of the ensuing trial scene. Trial highspots: the prosecution raises a laugh against a defense witness by hanging on him the old joke about getting syphilis in a toilet; the defense successfully counters by showing that a prosecution witness once got drunk, took a horse into a church. The 15 defendants were pronounced guilty; Ring leader Marvin got 25 years in jail. Harry Baumann, caught trying to set fire to his father's mill, sought a final sensation by shooting himself. Silly Mrs. Thayer died of overexerting her alcoholic heart. Her husband was proud the strike...
...lithograph called "Out" Mr. Riggs has portrayed a fighter sagging to the floor and catching at his opponent's body for support as he falls. The referee is moving rapidly toward them. The victor, himself half punch-drunk, is swaying crazily, arms raised above his head. There is an excellent sincerity about this lithograph that is quite commendable. The limp body of the vanquished; the tense, triumphant face of the victor; and the referee's alert attitude have been well caught. But it must also be admitted that the body of the victor is not too carefully drawn. The large...
...writer, Authoress Gilfillan's popularity waned. Communist organizers accused her of being a capitalist spy. Police thought she was a Communist. Old friends stopped speaking to her. One day at a mass meeting she was publicly ostracized. Only people who would talk to her were an old drunk and the faithful Johnny, who was expelled from the Young Communist League for being in cahoots with her. At the end she had to tell Johnny that he could not go with her. He took it like a man. " 'I get you.' A pause. 'I can take...