Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little man in the damp overcoat was mildly drunk. He scraped his feet over the sawdust, scratched his rump, downed the last of his "mild and bitter...
...health, also lightening affects me a lot, I get such a thirst from Lightening, and full of Pins and Needles, if I drink from the tap it's worse, Beer makes me better the more I drink better I feel, neither does it make me drunk, when a Boy a horn of Beer before Breakfast was the foundation for the day." Of such plums, and many a pebbly fact and figure, Mass-Observation's report on Bolton's pubs is compact...
...nervous, impulsive bachelor, Grauman has not drunk for 30 years. But he smokes four packs of cigarets a day, plays gin rummy for high stakes all night, breakfasts in midafternoon. He loves gags and practical jokes, once got Marcus Loew to give an impassioned pep talk in a darkened room to 75 dummies; once persuaded Charlie Chaplin to enter a Charlie Chaplin impersonation contest. Chaplin won third prize: $1. Grauman credits all his success to "the Big Boss Upstairs"-"God," he says, "does my shows...
...said he had seen Negro workers "chip in for a pint of whiskey which they got in the next town. They take it back with them and lie dead drunk between the rows of beans and tomatoes...
...wakened at 3 a.m. by muffled cries for help from outside, ran to his front yard, still heard the cries but saw no one, traced the sound to the gutter, heard a man's voice groaning deep in the earth. Police called by Austell found a stout, elderly drunk lost in the sewer, led him out through the entrance five blocks away...