Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a delegate had no objection to this aim, but they had many an objection to Harry Hopkins. Still, it was Hopkins or nothing. Some got drunk, some went home (one of these was Virginia's apple-cheeked apple grower, Senator Harry Flood Byrd). But most went around to Hopkins' headquarters, there meekly, glumly, sadly or rebelliously surrendered. Over their heads the shrewd, cool Secretary of Commerce held one awful threat: one false move out of the Convention and your only candidate won't run. Then where...
...East of Europe, France's defeat had been discounted a week before it took place. Russia moved with unaccustomed speed to safeguard her frontier against conquest-drunk Germany. Out of the safe she brought charges that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia had formed a military alliance against her, promptly moved into one country after another. Half a million men and countless tanks took their places facing East Prussia. In any other week that would have been important news...
...tutoring schools was a legitimate educational need--that of organized pre-final reviews. Not all the students who in the past attended commercial reviews did so in order to get crammed with facts they were too lazy to learn for themselves. Many a conscientious freshman staggered across Massachusetts Avenue drunk with facts, but unable to differentiate between which of those facts were essential and which superficial...
...Nashua, N. H., a milkman making his early morning round passed a cemetery, heard a voice cry from an open grave, "What time is it?" The milkman did not stay to answer. Returning with a police escort, he discovered a drunk, nightfloundered in the grave...
...reporter of today is a better man than his predecessor. He has to be. He is better-educated, better-paid. Neither he nor his editor can get away with the cheap sensationalism of yesterday's Yellow Journalism--and neither of them insists on any special license to get drunk. The reporter's passport today is respected everywhere, and he is expected to live up to the code of his profession...