Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Socialists wanted planning, eh? Well, they could have it. When Tetsu Katayama's government introduced a Socialist-sponsored planning measure in Japan's House of Representatives recently, the conservative opposition fought back with some planning of its own. After due deliberation, it decided to get good & drunk...
...Statesmen. The hard core of the opposition stayed drunk for three full days. Purpose of this blueprinted binge was not escape, but sabotage of the hated measure (a mild bill for government control of Japan's coal mines). When the Speaker called for a preliminary vote, alcoholic catcalls greeted him. Then surow mow (slow motion) set in. Opposition members slowly sauntered to the ballot box. One of them, loudly complaining of an injured leg, took two minutes to climb the six-step rostrum to the ballot box. Others, magnificently squiffed, zigzagged through the chamber, stopped to chat with friends...
...Leventhal is living alone in his Manhattan apartment while his wife helps her mother move to Charleston. In the barbaric heat of late August he is beset by a nearly forgotten old acquaintance, Kirby Allbee. Down & out, dirty, half drunk, Allbee turns up to jeer at Asa, "discussing" with him a guilt that is both preposterous and somehow plausible...
...Character, Master of the Repartee, take off. Your everloving public, or is it private, looks expectant. Pretty drunk out last night. wasn't it gents! Laughter from everybody-everybody except the High Forehead. Never had so much fun with my clothes on, though. Loud guffaws while to find out his name sometimes, the Vag thought, the High Forehead turned back to his pie. Ought Might be fairly intelligent. Vag looked at his damp, new cold potate, remembering the story he had told yesterday-of a B plus in a course he hadn't been to three weeks. The admiring smiles...
...home I will I'll go home we're neither of us having a good time, darling. Yes, said Vag aloud, then yes yes yes yes to himself I want to go home and then I want to go away farther and farther. I don't want to be drunk or indifferent or dance or dance or dance. To bed, to bed with sleepyhead. And it's seven more months...