Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparently Author Scott thinks so too, for she has lavished 175,000 warning words on the clinical details of Jimmy's decline & fall. The publishers urge readers not to assume that The Story of Mrs. Murphy is simply "another" novel about a drunk. They are quite right. Distinguished by nothing except low-grade prose and high-grade intentions, it is probably the worst novel of its kind since the days of T. S. (Ten Nights in a Barroom) Arthur...
High Horse. In Joplin, Mo., cops spotted a horse and rider wandering erratically down the street, quickly jugged the rider, despite his indignant claims that he was perfectly sober-the horse was drunk...
...drunk is he who prostrate lies...
...agreed on a bill to coordinate and unify the direction of the armed forces. The bill carefully stipulated that the services were not to be merged. ¶ Chuckled over North Carolina's William Umstead, who suggested an old English test for D.C. drivers charged with drunken driving: "Not drunk is he who from the floor...
...shouting, back-slapping bedlam. Cried Roosevelt Carlos Kurd Sr., who had been identified by nine defendants as the man who shot out Willie Earle's brains: "I feel the best I ever felt in my life. I got justice." Defendant Hendrix Rector bragged: "I'm gonna get drunk for a month and then run for sheriff...