Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno last week bade his people celebrate Martes de carnes-tolendas (Mardi Gras) with fitting abandon. Ahead were 40 days of fasting & prayer, but for Fat Tuesday the Rio Guayas had yielded many fish to be eaten; there were many casks full of vino tinto to be drunk; on almost every corner in bustling Guayaquil were vendors with carts laden with confetti, streamers and chizguetes (perfume squirters).* President Baquerizo Moreno had given his own granddaughter, Senorita Rosa Piedad Baquerizo, to be Queen of Carnival. Let the people be gay. Was not that Liberal leader and troublemaker, Commandante Ildefonso...
...promise to give another cocktail party in his home or office and invite twelve paying guests. Each of the twelve must invite eight, each of the eight, four-by which time 7,921 people will have contributed $15,842 to benefit the 1,700 draughtsmen, drunk approximately 31,-684 cocktails to the benefit of 1,536 bootleggers, eaten approximately 180 Ibs. of caviar to the benefit of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-lics...
...expedition, who remained a prisoner for three months until he escaped in an automobile. The other four cars went on to Aksu, where they were again stopped. There they waited until Leader Haardt and his men rode up on yakback. Soon Explorer Petropavlosky turned up too, after having drunk all the water in his automobile. Then, with the entire expedition, they turned back, headed once more due East for Peiping...
...dreadfully, although at the time I thought we were being careful." Seaman Albert O. Jones, U. S. N., held as accomplice of Lieut. Massie, proudly exhibited to Reporter Owen a fat scrapbook of news clippings about the case, pointed to a statement of his own that he was too drunk the day of the murder to remember what occurred...
...Community, Identity, Stability; the Golden Rule was: "Everyone Belongs to Everyone Else." Wisdom came straight from the horse's mouth . . . straight from the mouth of Ford himself: "Ford's in his flivver. All's well with the world." When you were out of sorts you got drunk on a soma tablet; if you were a woman, and the condition persisted, you took a Pregnancy' Substitute Treatment. Sometimes you went to Solidarity Service, made the Sign of the T, sang hymns...