Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prohibition and other attacks on political and social liberty. Along side this dispatch, an account of a bill introduced in the New York State Legislature to give the state the right to buy and sell light wines and beer. On the next page, the story of Coast Guardsmen who, drunk on captured evidence, placed a "huge railroad switch tie on the tracks" just for a prank. On either side of this last bit of news, the protest of a New Jersey State Commission against the Volstead Act the demands of the Prohibition Commissioner for wood alchol poison in industrial alchol...
...remarks, written and printed, might have been irony but seemed to some people like treachery. Though he was a conscientious consul, he was perfectly cynical about politics, which never excited him. He died of a stroke on a Paris streetcorner, to the jeers of ragamuffins who thought he was drunk. Author of many books, he wrote at least two which are still read, which are perhaps "beginning to be understood": The Red and the Black, On Love...
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Everyone gets at least slightly drunk. Platonov's wife goes home early. That worthless fellow is in great form: he has drunk a good deal, and it all goes to his heart. He makes love to his hostess, to the newly married Sofya, goes a little too far with Grekova, whom he humiliates by kissing soundly and then throwing on a table. When he gets home in the small hours, his adoring wife is waiting up for him, but he will not go to bed; he sits outside and indulges in remorse for his disgraceful conduct. Anna Petrovna comes...
...carried it into the house uninjured. The house keeper took the pigeons from the cats, and in return for them gave a slice of beef or mutton and milk to each cat. The pigeons were taken into a little side room, and after they had eaten some maize and drunk water, they flew out of the window none the worse for their handling by the cats. The fact was that neither cat liked to eat game with dirty, sooty feathers on it ; they preferred clean cooked meat." On Jan. 1, 1929, Sir Wallis contributed to the Conservative Evening Standard...