Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showed up glassy-eyed, leeringly insulted several customers, swept a shelf of goods to the floor and stomped out. When his father refused to give him money for liquor, he began cadging from family friends. One of his brothers died. X showed up at the funeral staggering drunk, vomited spectacularly in the church aisle...
...Beach Hotel last week, 1,302 members of the American Society of Bakery Engineers held a convention which would have convinced many a veteran convention-goer that he had come down with the d.t.s. No salesmen of bakers' equipment set up bars to dispense alcoholic cheer. Toasts were drunk in tomato juice. Even at the biggest banquet the 30 men at the speakers' table decorously drank cocktails of milk, without even a spot of gin to take away a taste abhorred by most convention guests...
...your Feb. 17 issue, under the heading "Wild Bill's Troubles," you state that El Pampero charged that Colonel Donovan was drunk . . . in connection with his mission in Sofia...
...newspaper publisher, a bulky, sinister, pince-nez-polishing fascist (Edward Arnold), has always intended to use the John Doe Clubs to get himself elected President and regiment the U. S. people into some sense. Doe learns this from the newspaper editor (James Gleason), a patriot who has got drunk with the horror of the idea. The notion of having the prime patriotic appeal of the picture delivered by a soused journalist (and ex-soldier) is a crowning piece of Capra-Riskin-Gleason virtuosity...
...invasion of England was repeatedly postponed and hopes of a quick peace faded, the soldiers got quieter and quieter. Homesick talk vastly increased, photographs of families were more in evidence. R. A. F. raids on Antwerp and over Germany sandpapered the soldiers' nerves. Against strict orders, they got drunk oftener. By September, soldiers were forbidden to carry sidearms. More & more of them listened to the London broadcasts (penalty, two years in a concentration camp). Such symptoms might never focus in revolt; but it was safe to say that German morale could never regain its high pitch of summer...