Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whiskers & Lipstick. Whatever self-consciousness TV induced may have had a good effect on public manners. Only one drunk was spotted by the camera. Oratory, for the most part, was less protracted than usual. Radio, said Alf Landon, had trimmed convention speeches down by two-thirds; he looked for television to cut it down another third...
Preventive Ounce. In Seattle, a judge suspended sentence on Ben Trigg on condition that the next time he "feels a drunk coming on" he chain himself securely to a tree...
Last week, from 650 entries, the New Statesman ran some rib-tickling winners: ¶ I am sparkling; you are unusually talkative; he is drunk...
Avery had scored a clean K.O., but it had left Monkey Ward punch drunk. As one bigwig said, with vast understatement: "This is just no way to run a business. It's a question of how long Avery can get away with it-a big question...
...children who loathes the little pests as wholeheartedly as he likes .liquor and girls. June Allyson, a somewhat prim (but non-bespectacled) Vermont schoolteacher, wins a contest to illustrate his forthcoming book, The Bashful Bull. When she meets Uncle Bumps, whom she has always idolized, he gets her drunk-a state which Miss Allyson communicates with more charm and taste than most movie stars of either sex. When she sobers, she is outraged. It is necessary to pretend that the genius is driven to drink by a delinquent son (Butch Jenkins), who is borrowed from an orphanage...