Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defendants. Willion Collinswort, 23; Patrick Scarborough, 20; David Ervin Beagles, 18, and Ollie Stoutamire, 16, made up a sorry lot of delinquents, victims as well as products of their squalid environments. Collinsworth. an illiterate telephone lineman, is a chronic drunk, son of a sadist who beat him habitually throughout his childhood. Scarborough, an Air Force enlisted man, is an orphan whose mother was shot to death in a barroom brawl when he was seven and whose father committed suicide the same year. Stoutamire quit school after the eighth grade, has had a brush with juvenile authorities. Beagles is a high...
Last week Milan cops arrested Vignal, unmasked him as one Giuseppe Tosini, well known to Roman law authorities as a swindler, cigarette smuggler, drunk and vagrant wanted on four counts. La Bibbia's fate-Tosini had two years worth of Scripture scripts-was left in doubt. To get the public and the Bible closer together, said Monsignor Enrico Galbiati, Milan's Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censor, it will be necessary to bring the public level up rather than drag the Bible down...
Most often the matter of color is not the core of a story. A young white boy cruelly squelches a not-very-bright Negro who tries bumblingly to make a pigeon coop for him; white passers-by discuss irritably what to do with a helplessly drunk white man, unload the problem on two gentle and respectful native policemen. Such cruelty and callousness exist independent of color, but the failings of Jacobson's whites show with merciless clarity against a black background. In the book's best story, a young white South African who has migrated to London anticipates...
Puntila is supposed to be a fine Falstaffian fellow when drunk, (he is usually drunk): ready to use his money and power to satisfy the human and animal urges of himself and his friends. It is only during his "attacks" of sobriety that he becomes cold, hard, selfish, and nasty--or, in a word, capitalistic. "Everybody gets along with Puntila," mutters Puntila, potted--but his drunk scenes are written in a vein of repetitive, magniloquent slobbery that makes him more unpleasant drunk than sober...
...North Carolina's Dr. John A. Ewing. "Some women repeat it two or three times.") Dr. Browne cited one woman of 27 who had been beaten as a child by her father, kicked out of the house at 14 by her mother, married at 20 to a drunk. She could take these buffetings, but when her husband was cured of his addiction, she deliberately provoked arguments to start his drinking again...