Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poetry did not come easily to him, but now that he feels he has mastered the fundamental techniques of clear expression in verse, Mr. Kennedy finds writing a "genuine high-point of pleasure." Although he has always been a teetotaler, he supposes that composing poetry "serves instead of getting drunk...
Know Thyself. In Dallas, Edward C. Parrish decided that he was really getting just too drunk & disorderly, phoned the cops, had himself arrested...
...obviously a street musician. He is at home, seated at his table. You can see how he has been enjoying himself-there are heads and tails of herrings on a plate, a bottle which has contained stout, and a glass which betrays the fact that he has drunk the stout. There is also a half-empty packet of cigarets. The happy gentleman is all alone and he is leaning back in his chair, playing his cornet. What is he playing? Well, I've called the picture I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls...
...their bridal night Stephen gets drunk and breaks down her bedroom door. Although they seem to do nothing but snarl at each other from then on, this refined bit of symbolism results in a son. As a sort of judgment against them, the son is born clubfooted. Stephen works hard to make a man of him-too hard to suit mother. Eventually the little boy, hearing his parents quarrel, falls downstairs and dies. The stockmarket does the same...
...drunk your health so many times...