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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drunk with great delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Through a Cloud of Dust | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...uncollected price of a painting. Dodge had claimed that the painting was a bogus Sir Thomas Lawrence, which he never would have bought if he had been sober. Commented the Lord Chief Justice: "Dodge was behaving . . . as what would be described in his own country as a common drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts & Afterthoughts | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Inflation. In Orange, N.J., patrons of Willie's Diner watched fascinated as a drunk garnished his hamburgers with four $1 bills and a fiver, gobbled it all down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Breadwinner. In Cambridge, Mass., a housewife explained why she kept her husband drunk: sober, he made $30 a week; in jail for drunkenness, he made her eligible for $60-a-week welfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...came back often got drunk and stayed drunk until the next mission. When three-quarters of the original crews had been lost, and the rest were losing their minds, Major Van Luppen, the commanding officer, was recalled to the States. He was enough of a ham to make a farewell speech. But when he said, "We've become something very tough that Heinie doesn't care to tangle with when he doesn't have to," there were guffaws. (They approved when he said drinks were on the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heroes | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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