Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High Pressure belongs more or less to this last category, except that in its attitude toward the industry of stock promotion it is slightly less informative than farcical. Turkish baths restore William Powell, discovered drunk in a ginmill, to a condition in which he is fit to undertake the organization of a campaign to sell stock in a company for making rubber out of sewage. Vastly successful at this enterprise, he is presently discomforted to learn that the inventor, upon whose formulas the company's production plans depend, has disappeared. He is even more discomforted when the inventor reappears...
...trial the wife of one of the engineers arose, addressed the crowd: "There should be only one lone criminal on trial here today. That is the wretched man whose desire for death was the first cause of the accident." The "lone criminal" was a cobbler named Vyesyolov. Drunk, he staggered in front of a train. While the crew of that train was trying to extricate his body a second train ploughed into it. Peasants laid the wounded on a parallel track, a freight train ran over them. Those who were able to appreciate the grim humor of the situation recalled...
...fireman will die because he did not report the engineer drunk, a conductor because he was responsible for the conduct of the train crew, a stationmaster and train despatcher because they did not hold the train at the station but let it pass through and crash into another train. Among lives lost in the wreck was that of the drunken engineer...
...cooking) isn't so very much in such a windy sunny place, and it seemed even less after the fresh fruit was gone, and we began munching prunes. On the tenth day we took some cheese and sardines in to the well and had us a regular water drunk, after which we went over to the west shore and bathed in some of the reef pools and took the rest of the afternoon off in warm sandy comfort...
...last century an itinerant house painter named John St. Helen appeared in the Southwest. When drunk, he would confess that he was Booth, that U. S. troopers had got the wrong man in Virginia, that he had escaped to Mexico. When sober, he would deny the whole yarn. There was just enough doubt about the identification of Booth's body to make St. Helen's story sound plausible. In 1903 at Enid, Okla., he committed suicide with arsenic. Finis Bates who later became Attorney General of Tennessee, believed his story, had his body embalmed, exhibited the mummy...