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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reported to have written Jim Farley a stream of job-begging letters lately, ending with one which told a story about a drunk who encountered the ghost of St. Paul. "Tell me," said the drunk, "did you ever get an answer to your letter to the Ephesians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Planing Sounds | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...this year, nothing is quite the same. The Yard Concerts were more beautiful, more impression. Vag choked up more and sang with more feeling less boisterousness. At the Spring Dance, getting drunk was out. Instead it seemed proper to act with more decorum, more tenderness to The Girl. And she seemed impressed with the new regime. Exams this year they were to be prepared, not just crammed in two days before. Widener and Memorial Church they were suddenly things to look at with a new gaze. The river--it became a place to sit quietly and dream, no longer merely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Lucky Night (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Bad luck for Myrna Loy and Robert Taylor, gummed up in a sticky-silly version of the story about a couple who get acquainted, drunk, married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Drunk and asleep in his boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Thinking Test | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Louisville. Hazy and heaped-up, Louisville, Ky., says Author Leighton, is the museum piece among U. S. cities. There are the battered columns of Nicholas Biddle's once great United States Bank: "now the windows are bleared and there's a drunk asleep on the crumbling steps." In the great Gait House, financiers once fought over the Louisville & Nashville; in the lobby General Buckner, Confederate hero and Chicago real-estate speculator, smoked his corncob pipe and fought the reformers. At the Music Hall, 43-year-old William Goebel, ranked by Leighton as the greatest field general among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Landmarks | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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