Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come back." Berlenbach was a deaf mute until he was 14. Then a kite he was flying brushed against a high tension wire and the shock made him able to hear and speak, though with a difficulty which was later to make people think him "punch drunk." In 1923, when he was a Manhattan taxidriver, Berlenbach learned to wrestle and won an Olympic wrestling championship. That same year, turned fighter, he developed a dangerous left hook, with it knocked out 22 opponents, and won the decision from Light Heavyweight Champion Mike McTigue. Never a good boxer. Berlenbach was badly beaten...
...Stoetzer; offered to fight about 50 men who gathered around the accident; offered to fight Stoetzer, followed him into lis home, wiped greasy hands and face on his coat; causing three separate riot reports to the police department. Said the judge: "Mr. Lotus, I believe you are the perfect drunk driver. You have left nothng undone...
...opera of his sons and grandchildren. There were eleven of them in the show, ranging from 69-year-old Christopher Grant to 16-year-old John II. Water-colors by the three sons, Artist Bancel, Architect Christopher Grant, Retired Banker Oliver Hazard Perry, showed that they had drunk deep of Father John's medicine. Largest exhibits were the enormous cartoons for the mosaic tympanum of Washington's Trinity College Chapel by Son Bancel and Grandson Thomas Sergeant...
...farcical elements in Miss Crothers' play are better than the dramatic and comic. As Husbands Go has one excellent character, Lucile's crackbrained, ridiculously indiscreet friend (Catherine Doucet). When told that Mr. Lingard and the poet have become horribly drunk together, she says complacently: "Well, I know- but they're just...
...always refused. Poor and usually wageless, she "lived on bread and lived for gin." When she discovered that her untidy flowers were worth money she grew them for all she was worth, tottered home with many a bottle from the village pub. One winter night she got drunk in the graveyard and froze to death. Her cottage became an arty teashop, which was of course a failure...