Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fortnight Dean Inge replied to public protests against his objection to the bombing of German cultural monuments. Said he: "There is evidently a most evil temper among our civilians. . . . Philip Sober will [yet] be heartily ashamed of Philip Drunk...
...Bronx saloon one night last week, something large and loathsome zoomed through the air, plopped on the bar, waved long, quivering antennae at Customer Michael X. McDermott. Customer McDermott, who had drunk two beers and was looking forward to more, changed his plans in midswallow and beat a hasty departure...
...been developing; and not just the buildup but all the rest-the astronomically expanding budget, the ten thousand rumors and denials of political censorship, the interminable and ill-explained delays, like those whirs, buzzes and hangings which take place behind the curtain on the night Hamlet turns up drunk in a Hawaiian skirt. The audience was getting restless. But it was still eager. It knew Paramount had in Ernest Hemingway's novel the possibilities of one of the best pictures, greatest popular entertainments and most colossal money-makers ever produced. It wanted to see the new superproduction, the Gone...
Last week the newsmen celebrated again. In the San Francisco Hall of Justice press room, decorated with Shasta daisies and festooned with illuminated guests, 50 bottles of whiskey and four cases of beer were drunk up. Booker T. Day had become an annual affair...
Insulted and Injured. Modern readers know Griswold because of someone else. A penniless, difficult poet dogged him all his life. This poet was drunk, tormented, wild. Griswold replaced him as Graham's editor. Griswold quarreled with him, patronized him, lent him money, and after his death became his literary executor. He did one of the poorest jobs with the richest material that any literary executor has ever done. This poet (or someone writing for him) said what Griswold was and would be with deadly accuracy: For gotten, save only by those whom he has injured and insulted, he will...