Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earlier occasion, Jones recalled, masquerading Class members marched as the Seven Dwarfs with the aid of a young lady 'mascot" as Snow White. The great advantage of this, he explained, came with the masks worn by the dwarfs, which "allowed us to get drunk without our wives being able to tell...
...cops." He attended the school for recruits, made the grade, and was assigned to a night beat on the Brooklyn waterfront. For the next seven years, he wore a cop's uniform. He learned many things: that it was 'often more sensible to let a drunk sleep under a signboard than to haul him to the station house; that it was always wise to whistle for aid before tackling trouble. Once he waded into a gang of roistering sailors, slipped in the snow, was beaten to a pulp...
Giovanni Bellini's Feast of the Gods has long been a puzzle as well as a masterpiece. The gods look more drunk than divine. Vesta, protector of virgins, lies dozing in one corner of the picture while Priapus fiddles with her skirt. A blowsy Ceres helps Apollo hoist cup to lip. Neptune is paired off with Gaea, who holds a quince -the symbol of marriage. Bacchus appears as a child, and his foster father Silenus looks more like a slender ascetic than a roly-poly satyr. Generations of art scholars have wondered...
...Commandos to counteract Jewish terror. Farran disliked the soft attitude of Britain's Palestine police ("Mild reproofs and a lot of tearful kissing"). Disguised as Jews, Farran and his men patrolled Palestine, rounding up suspects. He liked his work. "It was," he said, "as though we had drunk deeply of some invigorating fire...
Died. Arthur Ault, 75, portly, plain-spoken editor of the Lamar, Mo., Democrat; of a heart ailment; in Lamar. He fattened his national reputation (TIME, July 8, 1946) with such unlarded local reporting as "George Phillips is back in the Barton County jail . . . drunk as a lord...