Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more to go, and was snowed under with protests and praise. It had a growing file of signers who said there had been some mistake (they thought it was a petition for Palestine partition, or against the city anti-smoke law, or against war; two confessed that "I was drunk at the time...
...fortifier, a tumbler of orangeade spiked with honey. The House was amused. The M.P.s were also amused when he said: "I propose to abolish the excise duty ... on unsweetened table water. [This] is mainly a tax on soda water, which I do not drink. . . . Very little soda water is drunk neat in this country today. . . ." The Tory Daily Mail dubbed the budget "Cripps & Soda...
...around. Her fictitious bank account is a comforting (if non-existent) reserve, and next to Mama, the Bank is the most wonderful thing in life. Uncle is also wonderful (well-played by Oscar Homolka) for he tells off all the persnickety aunts; but he's somewhat terrifying and always drunk...
...incessantly, on the hills, in the streets, in the valleys, and particularly on the beaches; how the women didn't care a fig, and responded to the assaults in the grossest way. But under their rumpled beds lurked such killjoys as the Gastonia strike, antiSemitism, neurosis, a punch-drunk stockmarket and other cultural menaces. And so, at long last, a strong moral message ("Destructive violence must be fought-with constructive aggressiveness") soars across Father Haydn's sky like a flaming cliche...
Dzerzhinsky yearned to correct the faults of his fellow man. One of the first people he corrected was the head of the Revolutionary Military Committee for Combating Alcoholism & Banditry, who wandered into Dzerzhinsky's office one night, drunk. Dzerzhinsky had him shot...