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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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From all accounts Churchill and Stalin enjoyed the meeting. A state dinner of 26 courses in the Kremlin lasted until dawn. It was a gay affair, "full of fun and very jocular." Stalin "told several jokes." Twenty-five toasts were drunk, including one to President Roosevelt. It sounded suspiciously as if in spite of the marching Panzers those two old rascals had had themselves a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Churchill Pere | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...north-county rural chamber, amid frowning portraits of side-whiskered yeoman justices, eleven U.S. officers sat in judgment. Private Hammond testified nervously, lolling back cross-legged in an upholstered chair. He and the girl agreed they had picked each other up, had drunk beers and wine in pubs, had sought the privacy of a bomb shelter together, had kissed. The girl insisted she had screamed, slapped, scratched. But she admitted that when it was over she had wiped his face with his handkerchief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Test Case | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

Inventor Crane, now a financial reporter for the New York Times, learned Japanese in Tokyo, where he was financial editor of the Japan Advertiser, newspaper correspondent and broadcaster. He made two best-selling phonograph records-Japanese versions of Drunk Last Night and Hinkey, Dinkey, Parlez Vous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Japanese in Ten Lessons | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

Passenger. In Muskogee, Okla., Patrolman James Hunter arrested a drunk, made a routine search of his automobile, found a securely trussed mountain lion, alive, in the trunk compartment. The drunk remembered helping a friend catch it, but explained he had thought at the time he was seeing things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 20, 1942 | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...Candida type, who decides that financial prosperity isn't all there is to life and decides to look for real happiness. Her husband is equally conventional as a likeable, prosperous business man who can't understand why his wife isn't happy. And then there is the inevitable chronic drunk, Who Has Searched For Beauty In Life And Found Nothing But Emptiness So Has Taken To The Bottle. His language is a sort of drunken allegorical double talk, about climbing to the top of the hill and looking at the horizon: Of course it is he who discloses...

Author: By J. M., | Title: PLAYGOER | 7/1/1942 | See Source »

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