Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Jones, "the Poetical Bricklayer," who succeeded a "Poetical Shoemaker." Henry was taken up by letter-writing Lord Chesterfield, but literary success went to his head. He died after being run over while drunk...
Like millions of other drunk or sober, unconcerned or troubled U. S. citizens, Franklin Roosevelt stayed up on New Year's Eve to see a tragic old year out, a new year in. At midnight, to his wife, his mother and a few close friends, the President proposed a toast: "To the United States of America...
This novel's first sentence is: "I was unusually drunk the night my father died." The speaker is Marcus Hendrycks, a 21-year-old Cambridge undergraduate, reeking rich. He proceeds to paint a sharper-than-average picture of gambling, snobbery and alcoholism among the more gilded British collegians. At the end of his wild night he finds that his father is not only dead but bankrupt and that his real life has begun. On thin savings he subsists for a while in a shabby-genteel London boardinghouse, at length moves on to the full depth of the slums...
...caught napping in the racquet game, 67a Mt. Auburn now sports the latest in stringing machines--a nifty little job which runs on compressed air. "It takes the guess-work out of stringing," explains Everett, "and brings equal pressure all around the racquet head--enabling me to work drunk or sober...
...Angeles, Ivan Whitfield, 25, told a Navy recruiting officer he had never kissed or hugged a girl, eaten chicken or chocolate ice cream, talked with a girl on the telephone, smoked, drunk, danced, watched a prize fight, or stepped aboard a battleship. "I might switch over on a few things," he observed...