Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bart returns to his Philadelphia home after years of musical study in Paris. "There it had been whispered he would win the Prix de Rome. And then, in an instant he had lost it." A little Jew walks off with the prize, and when the two have become "confidentially drunk together," the Jew says, "Do you know what is the matter with your music? Nothing has ever happened...
...Curran: I never heard of it. Senator Caraway: The Negro is eligible to membership on your board? Mr. Curran: Certainly. Senator Caraway: Then you think he has as much right to get drunk as anybody else...
...except when the Federal troops got too close, then we all had nothing but bread and water. Wild turkeys were roosting all around us but nobody dared shoot at them for fear the Federals would hear. My closest escape was one night when five of the bandits got drunk and wanted to hang me for the hell of it. Cruz Delgado finally talked them out of it. I taught those fellows to play poker. Some of them got to be pretty good. The last night after the ransom was paid they killed a turkey and gave me a party...
...come to dine with Harold ("who has a pagan love for movement and color") and Mabel Fuller, along with Annette Roberts ("a gold digger on a legal holiday"), there would have been no elderberry wine. Had it not been for the elderberry wine, Harold would not have been drunk, Annette more drunk. Nor would Mabel have left home and Frederick received all blame. Commentators based their criticism, in essence, upon the curtain line of Act I: "The whole thing has been a mistake, a failure...
...Lowell, Mass., for the 127th time, police found James McGrade drunk, and arrested...