Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small, neat, pink-cheeked Headmaster Frank Hackett launched Riverdale on a shoestring. As a young assistant headmaster of a Manhattan school, he brought a group of small boys home from an outing one day, found an older boy on the school steps dead drunk...
Courtney was away at the time, it seemed. But Father Courtney was there. Police decided later that he had come home drunk and had started the fire with the candles that were found around his charred remains. The coroner called it suicide. Courtney collected $2,300 insurance on the house, $1,000 on his father, and took a small apartment in Hollywood...
...wife, and jealously observes that a woman should not go on living with a man when she dances better with another man. This philosophical approach trips and stumbles into paganism when he takes to liquor while his wife and Joe go off to the game together. In a hilarious drunk scene he resolves to hold his mate as a tiger does-by fighting for her. He does hold her-not with tigerish might, but by reading the trustee-forbidden Vanzetti letter to his composition class and becoming the college hero...
...burnt itself up, but don't you fret." "Kate is chasin' Raymond thu the grove with a butcher knife. But you jes' lay still and don't worry." So now 'Geechee comes to see Mrs. Rawlings once a year. She is always a little drunk. She says "they ain't nothin' nobody can do about...
Entered in the two-mile race, Dodds did everything a runner shouldn't do: he started out pumping like a six-day bike rider, zigzagged all over the track like a halfback, and finally-a full lap behind on the gun lap and staggering like a punch-drunk fighter-tripped Don Lash just a few yards from the tape...