Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Individual tickets sold for three guineas in early sales. But prices jumped to five guineas during the week. Boxes in the three tiers around the dance floor ranged from 15 to 40 guineas. For weeks in advance everyone talked about getting drunk, and by the time the three bands stopped playing at 5 a.m., most of the 5,000 revelers had succeeded. Twenty-two bars serviced the drinkers with bad champagne at top prices (three guineas), 1,500 chickens, thousands of pâtés and sausage rolls. A contingent of Burmese Territorials dressed as Tower of London beefeaters...
Pennywise (July). In Portland, Ore., street orator Phillip Baker demanded that police protect his right of free speech, said that every time he opened his mouth a listening drunk tossed in a penny...
Holiday Inn. In Washington, D.C., Samuel Goodman, 59, staggered into jail, reported himself drunk, asked to be locked up. Reason: the jail had fed him so well at Thanksgiving that he wanted to be there for Christmas...
Last week Gonzá1ez received some 200 man-in-the-street callers in his huge, gilt-&-damask office. A taxi driver under 60 days' sentence for drunkenness explained that he was not driving while drunk-just sitting in his taxi on the edge of town, knowing that he had had one too many. The President suspended sentence...
...high-flavored sage of Baltimore, was right in there with Edmund Wilson. A Canadian book firm owned by the United Church of Canada suddenly stopped distributing Mencken's Christmas Story-a timely tale of a bunch of bums who could not resist singing hymns when they got drunk. Decided the firm: it was "not a suitable book for us to handle." Mencken readily agreed: "I simply can't imagine anything so ribald being circulated by ecclesiastical publishers...