Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife of one of them to a game of ping-pong and a round of brandy at the Hotel Mediterraneo in El Terreno. They were all feeling fine when the artist's wife, Mrs. Clinton Benedict Lockwood, heard sounds of a row between the doorman and a drunk. She went to pacify him while the doorman left to get help. He returned with a big stranger, dressed in an opera bouffe green and yellow uniform, carrying a rifle in a yellow leather sling. He was a member of Spain's famed Guardia Civil, crack police corps on whose...
...Lockwood "remonstrated"' with him to let the drunk alone. The drunk caterwauled. The guardsman knocked the drunk down, broke his eyeglasses. Mr. Lockwood rushed up. The guardsman spanked Mrs. Lockwood with the flat of his sabre. Husband Lockwood punched the guardsman's eye. More green and yellow men appeared, took the five to Palma's jail in the ruins of a medieval monastery. Charge: the military offense of assaulting a Civil Guard. Minimum penalty if convicted by a military court: five years. Two of the five prisoners, including Rutherford Fullerton, were held only as witnesses...
...readers of Without Music should be expected to echo the comment of Robert Benchley in his introduction: ". . . It makes me feel better about having laughed so loud at Dwight Fiske in night clubs. I always have had a suspicion that I was drunk. Now I know that I was merely appreciative...
...Knox made Witness Karelsen lie low in her compartment, kept an eye on her as best he could. Unfortunately for his plans, Runaway Husband Jason celebrated his new freedom by taking a drink too many, stumbled into Lena's compartment and continued the party there. When Lena was drunk enough she told Jason everything; they planned to run away to South America together...
...silent, learned, a recluse, he has made few and brief appearances in public. Around such academic figures there always spring up apocryphal tales. After a better-than-ordinary dinner Housman is reported to have made this speech: "Cambridge has seen some strange sights. It has seen the poet Wordsworth drunk, and the philosopher Person sober. Tonight it sees a better poet than Person and a better philosopher than Wordsworth, neither drunk nor sober, but just betwixt-and-between...