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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coulter and his friends, Henry Nathan, instructor in English at Tuffs, were arrested outside a Washington St. night club nine days ago for being "drunk and disorderly." At the time the pair protested their rough handling by police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Municipal Court Grants Acquittal In Coulter Case | 2/18/1959 | See Source »

...stylized, make-believe mayhem that has made professional wrestling one of the most prosperous trades in show business. Says bulb-nosed, cauliflower-eared Joseph ("Toots") Mondt, the 12-year veteran of the mat and now one of the most successful wrestlers' agents: "You don't see punch-drunk, slap-happy wrestlers. I know at least 60 of them that got out of it rich, and no more harm to 'em than cauliflower ears. This ain't like other sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Heroes & Villains | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...Eight years before, Temple had been kidnaped by a spiderish hoodlum named Popeye, kept six weeks in a Memphis brothel, and ''loved it." ("Nun" is a 19th century word for whore.) A year later Temple married the slack-spined Virginia gentleman, Gowan Stevens, who had been too drunk at the time of the kidnaping to protect her. It is only when Temple proposes to relive the bad old days with an ex-lover's younger brother that Nancy pleads with her to break the cycle of evil for the sake of her two children, and with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...self respecting woman would let herself be painted like that." There is also a soft but deceitful matron, to whom Jimson was once married, and a Lord and his wife whose wall Jimson must have to paint his great panorama of the rising of Lazarus. He finally gets dead drunk in their living room, imports a number of oriental types whose feet he wants to paint, and, quoting lines from the omnipresent Blake, sets to work...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Horse's Mouth | 2/5/1959 | See Source »

...attempts to interrupt Defense Attorney Horacio Quinones, but recessed the court when Roberts finally broke in to say: "I'm sorry, Your Honor, but in the interest of public health and justice, I must bring to the court's attention the fact that Mr. Quinones has just drunk a glass of Epsom salts in which I was bathing my finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 29, 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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