Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salary reputedly $15,000 per week. Besides his circus appearances, his newsworthy activities have since included getting divorced by Mrs. Victoria Forde Mix, who charged mental cruelty, "loudness in public," pistol twirling; getting sued for $13,000 by one John Berress of Minneapolis, who charged that while drunk Mix grappled with him, shook a large fist; getting sued by Col. Zack T. Miller for alleged jumping of a contract with Miller's now defunct 101 Ranch Circus; nearly dying from peritonitis following an appendectomy; marrying one Mabel Hubbell Ward...
...native-born Texan and a rustic who has never shot a gun, baited a hook, used tobacco in any form, or drunk anything stronger than Brazos water.''* Thus wrote the late President Samuel Palmer Brooks of Baylor University (Waco. Tex.) in his introduction to Battles for Peace, a collection of addresses by his good friend Pat Morris Neff. Many people might have doubted that such a Texan ever existed. Pat Neff not only existed but became Texas' Governor (1921-25). Well-known now is the story of how. hunting with a party which included the late William Jennings Bryan...
...baited Russian believers with the following rigmarole: "I believe that Jesus fed 5,000 people with five loaves of bread, but I do not believe they weren't hungry afterward. I believe that water can be turned into wine but I do not believe any one can get drunk...
When Dr. Fenger supplied hog mucin free from parasites, their eggs and germs, Dr. Fogelson experimented with twelve human ulcer patients. Two patients got drunk during treatments. But their sprees had no apparent effect on the treatment. Eventually all improved. Since then Dr. Fogelson and his Northwestern associates have successfully treated six dozen more cases of gastric ulcer with mucin...
...common sense, as around a queen more fertile than they of purpose and strength. When Tom gets the servant girl in trouble he turns to the grandmother for money to satisfy the girl's father; but grandmother lets him wait. When her simple-minded hired man Curly gets drunk, attacks one of the boys who tease his addled wits, grandmother will not allow the family to shut him up. Curly was her husband's bastard; she had raised him. Gradually Amy is drawn into the family affairs; the memory of her own troubles begins to fade. When grandmother...