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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taken from a cardboard box. On it she indicated what she called "the sphenoidal ridge." When a head is punched, she went on to explain, the brain is knocked against this ridge, and punch-drunkenness results. Sixty percent of all fighters, said Dr. Summerskill, end by becoming permanently punch-drunk. Beefy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In This Corner... | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

Promoter Solomons (196 Ibs.) countered with a fast one-two. "I challenge these figures," he said. "Gene Tunney was so punch-drunk that he married ?8,000,000, and Jack Dempsey proposed to a woman worth 35 millions. I wish I was as punch-drunk . . ." The decision went to Edith, but Jack came out of the ring determined to get a return match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In This Corner... | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...game begins, a rich old fellow (Ronald Squire) arrives with a charming young girl (Peggy Cummins) at a grand hotel in Monte Carlo and calls for the bridal suite. That night, to the disgust of the other guests, he gets drunk, and the next morning, to their scandal, they discover that he has not only abandoned the poor young thing on her wedding night but has stolen her pocketbook, too. The maiden is not long in distress. The other guests, led by a kindly old dowager (Marie

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Mar. 29, 1954 | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

Money from Home (Hal Wallis; Paramount), in which Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis try to fix a horse race, is pretty funny for a minute or so. The horse they are betting on gets drunk and cannot make the post until the boys rush forward with the black coffee and bromo. Otherwise, it is the usual ill-swizzled Dean & Jerry cocktail, with most of the jokes settling quickly to the bottom. Dean: "Ain't he quaint?'' Jerry (haughtily): "You mean, isn't he quisn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...said to my cell mate. The drunk's eyes flickered, then he swallowed once and turned over, unconscious. An hour, then two, went by as I watched the more sober ones go out to talk to bondsmen. Finally the guard stopped in front of cell 28, "What did I tell you, boy, Freddie will spring...

Author: By H. E. Edmunds, | Title: Riot in Cell 28 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

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