Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Potted Chicken. In Montreal, the city morgue received a hen with a note requesting an autopsy, put the hen on ice, finally got around to examining it two weeks later, discovered that it was not dead but simply dead drunk on mash, sobered...
Night in a Bar. He had been home a week before he decided to get drunk. He called up an old girl friend and they dropped into a café on Main Street. That was a mistake. The barflies began swarming all over him. They asked him questions about his service ribbons, about the Russians, about whether he had been scared and was he scared at the idea of going to the Pacific...
Last week the Hearstmen picked themselves up off the floor. Their "hero" had exploded right in their faces. At Fort Devens, Mass., Private McGee had just been sentenced to six months for being AWOL and drunk, and for making false statements under oath. The false statements: that he had been in combat, had won the Purple Heart and Silver Star. The conviction, the court-martial revealed, was the thirteenth of McGee's Army career...
Stunts & Speed. He had no flashy crowd-catching tricks. Terry once tried to sell him on the stunt idea. "But what shall I do?" asked Ott. "Anything," said Terry, "do anything. Get drunk . . . disappear ... lie down and roll over when you catch a ball . . . slide home when you hit one out of the park." Replied Ott: "Aw, gee, Bill. I couldn't do that. I'd look silly...
...intended to be geographical notes on the world as a G.I. sees it. Having studied G.I. travel reactions with his specially slanted artist's eye as closely as he observed foreign landscapes, people and furnishings, Steinberg observes: "The boys bring America with them. They behave right. They get drunk...