Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nightfall the excitement had subsided and the city's drive-in theaters were doing a rushing business. Carpenters boarded up broken windows and police roped off the worst hit blocks. By 9 p.m. the area was deserted except for occasional pedestrians trying to get through the barricades. One drunk shouted at a patrol car: "When are you gonna let me through? I've walked 18 blocks and I'm no closer to home than when I started." Said a cop: "You've been walking through saloons." Retorted the drunk: "You think that's easy...
...National Museum, scrambled up the rocky slope on Lake Huron's Canadian shore to have a look. Half an hour later, he was poking and prodding one of the richest diggings in North America. The forest floor was dotted with crude knives, scrapers, and quartz chips. "I felt drunk," he said. "It looked as though the Indians had heard me coming, dropped everything, and run into the bush...
Utrillo: "I was able to capture all the violence and the pathos of his life. We don't know many men who started getting drunk when they were only eight months old.* Today, Utrillo is either asleep, drunk or berserk. If it weren't for Lucie Valore [TIME, Aug. 25], he'd be dead. He told me: 'I hate my house. It's full of bourgeois furniture and servants. One day I'm going to run away and go back to Montmartre where I belong.' It was the saddest thing...
Models in Manuscript. Author Wecter brings to life the real models of dozens of people and incidents in Mark Twain's books. Huck Finn was Tom Blankenship, the happy, shiftless son of a ne'er-do-well drunk. Sid Sawyer was modeled after Sam's own brother Henry. "Injun Joe," sometimes known as "Injun Aleck," was a drifter from Oklahoma who, according to rumor, had once "somehow lost his interest" in his mother, and hanged her. There really was a cave downriver from Hannibal, too, and Sam himself was once lost in it with a young lady...
...Example. In Brownwood, Texas, Leslie F. Smith, advertising salesman for the Frazier Publishing Co.'s traffic safety manual, was arrested for making an illegal turn, driving without a license, driving on the wrong side of the road, driving while drunk...