Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burning exhilaration. They were followed by moods of suicidal depression. He drank wildly. His father had committed suicide; Tom Buntin talked with animation of killing himself. One night his wife awakened, found him holding a pistol at his head and knocked the weapon aside. Buntin got so scandalously drunk one afternoon in September 1931 that he broke into the home of two horrified spinsters and was hauled off to jail. When he disappeared two days later, many of his friends believed he had left town to do away with himself...
...rear of her station wagon, they headed for St. Joseph. On the way, they stopped for drinks; Hall inspected the station wagon to "observe whether there was any blood dripping . . . on the ground." The rest of the week was a drunken dream. Said Mrs. Heady: "I wanted to stay drunk so that my conscience would not bother...
...remorse at hearing her confession read in court. She lolled, squinted and smiled, scratched her nose, plucked at her shoulder straps. The next day she was less content. Hall's confession was read, and Bonnie reacted with a hurt-cur look to his frequent references to her being drunk and "again inebriated." Hall said that when he was arrested in St. Louis by Police Lieut. Shoulders and a patrolman, he still had about $592,000 of the $600,000 ransom money. Some $300,000 is still missing...
...than for spite, according to the canvass. It was usually a matter of complying with customs, belonging to a fraternity, or endeavoring to get along better on dates. Only 47 percent of the males drank "to get high," and a mere 17 percent reported that they indulged "to get drunk...
While more than half the people in the survey scorn the drunk--particularly the inebriated female, three-fifths of the undergraduates would permit drinking in moderation. And over "40 percent of the students accept the quiet abstainer but express rejection of the militant...