Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drunk suggests an overstepping of social expectancies . . . loss of control in ordinary physical activities, and inability to respond to reactions of others...
Three-fourths of all the men and 58% of the women reported having been high several times. Only half the men and one-fifth the women admitted having been repeatedly tight; half the men and only 10% of the girls had been drunk more than once; 16% of the men had passed out once, 18% more than once. Seven percent of the women had passed out once, only 2% had repeated the experience...
...Fumed Oak" is the funniest if the lot. For years Stanley Holloway, the husband, has been a perfect breadwinner. When, one night, he comes home moderately looped, his wife says, "Coming home drunk, well, I'll give you apiece of my mind." Holloway counters with "It will have to be a very small piece, you don't have much to spare." Such exchanges continue with a regularity and plane of wit that is indeed wonderful. The reductio ad absurdum of "Ways and Means," a parasite couple of the international set who induce a burglar to rob their hostess...
...first drink-it's the first drink that's the dangerous one-you're one drink away from a drunk. A little beer here and there and this horrible social drinking will lead to death, disgrace, and disease. The liver will turn purple, the brain shrink...
Pathos & Dignity. When the movie princess escapes, on impulse, from dull routine and is found, drunk on a sedative, by Reporter Gregory Peck on a bench in a Roman park, Audrey makes her helplessness absolutely winning by her quiet assumption that Peck will tend to her needs just as her personal maid might. "I've never been alone with a man before," she says severely a bit later in Peck's apartment, "even with my dress on," and her trusting innocence becomes a sure guarantee of safety. Audrey Hepburn's princess seems never to forget her exalted...