Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past the Hospitality Bar, where Pabst dispenses free beer to guests, the seven ministers met Production Vice President Lewis P. Weiner, who tried to convince them that "there is a great difference of opinion as to whether beer is an intoxicating beverage." Norwood knew better. "I've gotten drunk from it," he said, coolly explained that he once was a heavy drinker but was saved by the ministry. Said Weiner: "I'm glad you could come; it shows a spirit of broad-mindedness." Replied Norwood: "Even football teams send scouts to see the enemy...
Memories, nevertheless, still remain, The Times remembered "The beer that was formerly brewed at the Pusey House was famed for its strength, and the story is still told there of how the austere wife of a famous Oxford Don of the last century, after having drunk some, protested in an uncertain voice, 'But I see two staircases." And today, Mrs. Pusey serves tea to professors and their wives, and dilutes the drink with cream...
Respectful but not intimidated, the seven court-martial officers took seven hours to find Matt McKeon guilty of drinking in barracks and simple negligence in the six deaths. But they cleared him of the more serious charges of "oppression" and culpable negligence. McKeon, the court found, was not drunk the night of the march, nor had he been criminally negligent. McKeon, Zuke Berman, the prosecution and the press took the verdict as clear evidence of a Pate-weight sentence to come. Then, next day, came the stunning blow...
...English literature, Shaw is the spinster aunt. By this I do not mean to imply that he was sexless ... It is only in his writing that the aunt in him rises up, full of warnings, wagged fingers and brandished umbrellas . . . Shaw was unique. An Irish aunt so gorgeously drunk with wit is something English literature will never see again. But there is fruit for the symbolist in the fact that, prolific as he was, he left no children...
...report a bee swarm blocking the way into their house, Police Chief Howard Bailey replied: "I can't beat a bee with a blackjack, I can't shoot them and I can't arrest them. Tell you what. If you'll get 'em drunk, I'll come down and see what...