Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room we have very good intelligent people but by my house there are a lot of drunk men. There is a man called 'The Snake.' He sells liquor. One day he tried to make my father drunk. My mother said, 'Don't the be so dumb. We need the money for rent...
...starved that no immediate surgery could be thought of. After several days it was obvious that only amputation of his leg would save his life. Bellevue's Social Service Department scraped up $165 to buy (wholesale) an artificial leg, and eventually Luyhx hobbled off. Soon he was back, drunk again, with a new break in the amputated leg, above the knee-stump. The artificial leg was missing. Luyhx at first claimed he had lost it, later admitted he had hocked it for $15, to buy whiskey...
...everyone who gets a little drunk lands in gaol," said the editor, "but Liverpool prison serves a wide area in North-West England and North Wales . . . and so may be regarded as fairly representative of the country as a whole." According to available prison statistics, there was an appreciable fall in the amount of drunkenness during the first four months of the war. Dr. Snell's reasons: ". . . Resolute acceptance of the present situation in contrast to the wild enthusiasm manifest in 1914 ... a heightened sense of social responsibility . . . and the static character of the war itself during its early...
Sobering news to a victory-drunk nation was the announcement that after Aug. i the bread ration would be reduced...
Many a U. S. citizen finds it difficult to dissociate barbershop singing from barroom. Not so the S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. which rarely mixes liquor with its lyrics, explains simply: "A drunk can't sing." Equally proud is the society of the propriety of its songs, not one of which "you couldn't sing in Church...