Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Give Me Death. In Oklahoma City, Isaac West was convicted of drunk driving, despite his insistence that he had a constitutional right to drive on either the left or right side of the road...
...that case, it is also miserable allegory. The actors are completely lost in the script, and can make no more of it than can the audience. But it really isn't their fault. Mr. Sturm thought it would be killing to have a bunch of men pretend they are drunk, another man pretend he is a dangerous criminal, and a woman pretend that she cares what the whole bunch is doing. Unfortunately, someone forgot to add funny lines to the script and was misled into believing that a ridiculous plot is the same as an amusing one. The result...
...session. Dave finished in a fever, grabbed a handkerchief, wiped his face and ran to the wall as if he wanted to burst through it. Paul laughed aloud, followed him and spun him around. Brubeck was laughing, too, great yelps of laughter. He threw his arms into the air, drunk with music. A photographer who happened to be there was caught up in the excitement. "You're hot," he yelled, "by God you're hot! Don't stop...
Under Par. In Chattanooga, arrested on a charge of public drunkenness, William R. Coleman protested to police: "It takes a quart and a pint to make me drunk, and I've only had a quart...
Cause & Effect. In Ventura, Calif., after being sentenced to six months in jail for drunkenness and given five extra days for arriving drunk in court, Harvey D. Wilcox moaned: "That's what drives a guy to drink...