Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year old schoolboy who falls in love with a shopgirl of poor reputation. Their love brings about her regeneration as well as much happiness to them both. Unfortunately, the girl has been having an affair with a sadistic school teacher who has been regularly getting her drunk and subjecting her to the sort of depravities the demented, educated mind dreams up. Between tormenting the girl at night, and the classroom torment he gives the body during the day, the schoolteacher causes one death and one near-ruin among the young couple. Strangely enough, he does not fall down an elevator...
Sneering, he went on scourging the lawless, demonstrated his contempt for Harlan County's rulers by roughing up Sheriff Jim Cawood's son, throwing him in jail and accusing him of being drunk during a football game. One of his deputies quit, became chief of police at Evarts (TIME, Dec. 27), was promptly killed. Five other Evarts police chiefs quit or were arrested. Metcalfe paid no mind...
...mistress, Emma, had brought it to England in 1770. Josiah Wedgwood had copied it, the Duchess of Portland had bought it (whence its present name), and her son had handed it over to the museum. That day in 1845, it lay in 300 little pieces, deliberately smashed by a drunk...
...Lima, pisco is rarely drunk with more relish than in the Cantina de los Médicos, across the Rimac River from the capital. There, in a jumble of jars and bottles behind the musty bar, humble Peruvians may find, steeping in pisco, herb cures for almost every ill known...
...Lima doctors was brought to the cantina as a last resort. There the barman reached for la botella especial-the special bottle tucked away under the bar. After the bartender had dealt him a single snort, the dying man arose from his litter and walked away. He had drunk pisco ^from a rough, clear glass bottle in which was coiled, eyes open, a green garter snake...