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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tribute. In Sydney, Australia, copper nameplates in the Old Commodore Hotel's bar marked the spot where Customers Roly Collins and Stan Warren had drunk 7,000 gallons of beer since...

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

Organized crow had come a long way since the '50's, when the men would take the shell down the Charles to Boston every night in order to got drunk. It was through the magenta handkerchiefs the crew were around their heads that Harvard got its color and the new journal its name...

Author: By Norman S. Poser, | Title: College Was Rural, Self-Contained 75 Years Ago as Golden Age Began | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

Cough Up. In Moultrie, Ga., a suspicious policeman tapped the shoulder of a drunk, who promptly spat out about five dollars in nickels & dimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...Stand up and relax, the exam isn't tomorrow." His roommate banged into the room, articulating something about a new time for Vag's section. Vag tossed his pencil behind the desk again and noosed up his tie. "Let's go get drunk," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

...fireman. Some day he plans to be fire chief. The turn of the screw is that his brother-in-law (who has seduced Bill's good-looking wife) merely wanted to ruin Bill once & for all. With stupefying smalltown cunning, he calculated that some day Bill would be drunk when there was a fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alabama Town | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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