Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overscheduled. In London, John W. Glenister, 45, was arrested for being drunk while in charge of a motor vehicle, but only after going to his father's funeral, visiting his wife in a hospital, and attending his son's wedding reception...
...Caspian Sea, death last week had an appointment with Mahmud Faqizadeh, 31. A burly, handsome young man who worked in the Imperial Forestry Service, black-browed Mahmud had quarreled with an eminent Reshtian businessman, brooded over the affair in the company of a bottle of vodka and then, while drunk, sought out the man and shot him to death...
Disqualified. In San Francisco, after reeling into a bank and demanding some money while hammering on the teller's counter with a wine bottle, James R. Shaw, 51, was released by cops, who reckoned that he was much too drunk to be trying a serious holdup...
...Limb. In Denver, Entrepreneurs John Robinson and Vernon Clark were charged by cops with practicing professional tree surgery without a license -and while drunk...
Life with father was sometimes all beer and no victuals. The meticulous Stanislaus once calculated that John Joyce was roaring drunk 3.97 days a week. At such times, Papa would reel home in a vicious temper, flail away at any child within reach, and snarl, "I'll leave you all where Jesus left the Jews." An ardent Parnellite, the elder Joyce undoubtedly inspired the nine-year-old James to his first known literary effort, a poem to the fallen leader, in which Parnell was likened to an eagle, looking down from...