Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prince's dogs outdo the Grand Duke's in the hunt. Enraged, that fine gentleman flicks an eye from one of his hounds with his whip and gets toweringly drunk after dinner. It is unpleasant to think of him as commander of all Russia's cavalry and, later, of all the Russian armies. For even the dogs are conscious that something unusual, something dark and dreadful is coming to pass-the War, entered into by the Romanovs to gloss over their moral and mental shortcomings. To a dog like Siedoi, excitement is always welcome...
...Baron Tennyson, grandson of the late great poet, arrived in Manhattan for a brief visit. He had heard aboard ship that Lady Astor made a speech in the House of Commons charging that the English cricket team was recently defeated by the Australian team because the English team had drunk too much. Lord Tennyson was a member of the English team. He cried to newshawks: "This was false. . . . The members of our team when in training do not drink, or if they drink, it is comparatively little. . . . What does Lady Astor know about cricket...
...standing in the lobby when Col. Williams came in. He was supported by a junior officer and he was very noisy and apparently was quite drunk. Gen. Butler also was in the lobby when Williams reeled up to him and warned him he could not rule with a high hand in the West...
...Groton graduates: Harvard Senior Edward K. Jenkins of Warrenton, Va., member of the Harvard polo team, and Daniel Merriman (dropped from Harvard in his junior year and awaiting re-entry), son of Harvard History Professor Roger Bigelow Merriman. They had gone to Groton after a football game. They were drunk...
...Headmaster Peabody said he would push prosecution no further. But Harvard authorities planned to deal with the vandals, probably expel them. Said Vandal Merriman: "It is no use to say I am sorry. Sorry is not the word. Nothing can express it." Said Vandal Jenkins: "We were drunk at the time and as we became drunker we lost all sense of the seriousness of the things we were doing. I was not actuated by spite at Groton. . . . My record there was good...