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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting the Reds and the Republicans in the streets of my home town of Halle in Saxony. That was in 1919. I'm 38 now. Then I got into the Navy and for a while I was a spy, but the Navy threw me out. I got drunk and there was a woman. . . . And then I joined up with the Nazis. The rest was easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Heydrich's Inferno | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...Marcus thought "the people should know." He angrily corralled some of the spectators and took them with him to the microphone. These men from the street backed Marcus' charges of unnecessary roughness, differed only on how many times the drunk had been knocked down. When the last guest had had his say, Marcus slung his final scallion: "Onions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Onions to You, No. 590 | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...Some rules are super-fantastic. When a railroad refused to pay a man because he was drunk, the Brotherhoods wangled a half-day's pay with the argument that the man was "only half drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Featherbedridden McNear | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...letter, omitted from the stage version, is much the highpoint of a fine evening. It is handled so subtly that it never disguises the true humor of the situation, and the audience does not forget that the same man who is talking for freedom played the very unacademic drunk. Olivia de Havilland leaves something to be desired as the professor's wife, but she still comes through in the clinches...

Author: By T. S. K., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...thought he'd hit me on purpose. So I waited for an opening.> Then I let him have it. After that we were both punch drunk. The people on the sidelines . . . yelled, 'Stop them! They're killing each other!' He caught me over the left eye and I spurted blood like a stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Borderline Stuff | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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