Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like a Movie." Gradually he began to pass the word along that there was a shelter in the Church of Mater Dei, but the suspicious scugnizzi gave it a wide berth. Late one winter night he watched sadly as a group of three scugnizzi stripped a drunk to the skin, then he plodded off, muttering aloud: "I'm going to Mater Dei to get out of the cold." When he arrived at the church he fumbled wearily in his pockets; he had forgotten his key. He hammered with his hands upon the door. The custodian opened it at last...
...planted puffs in the big metropolitan dailies, the careful suckering of suspicious reporters, the old rah-rah for the worthy causes. And then all at once the first big fight, and a piece of good luck that money couldn't buy: the ex-champ, punch-drunk from his last big beating, dies in the hospital after the big boy takes him-just as Ernie Schaaf died after his 1933 fight with Carnera. Toro, a thousand headlines shout, is a killer! The story guarantees a great gate for the title fight...
...idea of a fourteen year-old lying dead-drunk on a sidewalk is certainly disturbing. But the ABC has taken a somewhat ineffective means of preventing such occurrences, leaving the package stores comparatively untouched, while purging inoffensive bars. If the twenty-one year age limit were enforced along more sensible lines, public cooperation might increase accordingly...
...stimulate the nerves and quicken the blood for an hour, without leaving any after-taste or memory. Thus the [young] girls can let themselves be caressed by the boys, and the old ladies can either dance frantically or stand there very dignified, completely stiff because they are dead-drunk. No punishment follows this sort of excitement, which is less dangerous for body, soul and social order than sensuality, intellectual passions, coquetterie, or jealousy...
...this spring. He swears he will never come back. As Cervantes said, "Don't look for any birds this year in last year's nest." He's nobody's bird in the hand. He takes his freedom seriously, and doesn't mind getting a little drunk. "One swallow doesn't make a Spring," he remarked last night in Cronin's. "I'm so stoned I feel like two birds...