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...deductive drinking. Fortified by a few nips aboard the train, he and his wife arrive in San Francisco to find a party already in progress at their house. After a few nips more, they go to a family dinner, where Nick drinks the other male guests into a stupor. When it turns out that the scapegrace husband of Mrs. Charles's pretty cousin (Elissa Landi) has mysteriously disappeared, Nick Charles finds him in a cabaret but he has barely time to drink his health before the scapegrace staggers out to be murdered. Detective Charles then settles down to drink...
...asmuch as this worker will be unable to work in the future, he should be separated from the payroll." Case 2,490: "Upon being ushered into this man's apartment, a sight greeted me that was not only repulsive but nauseating. Worker himself was in a semi-drunken stupor. His wife was lying on a dirty, sheetless bed. so drunk she could hardly raise her head. A mother cat with young kittens was in a box near...
...about five minutes to move from the top of the stick to the ground, a distance of about three feet. Evidently we were not meant to see this part of the performance, or it would all have been done in the open. The performer ... is under a trance or stupor, and becomes stiff as if in a state of rigor mortis. When Subbayah was back on the ground his assistants carried him over to us and asked if we would try to bend his limbs. Even with the assistance of three coolies we were unable to do so. After Subbayah...
...Traut and consultants tried this & that to bring her out of the stupor-blood transfusions, serums, iodine injections, typhoid vaccine, colloidal sulphur, neoarsphenamine, artificial fevers. All without real success...
...Examiner went to see her family physician, complained of being extraordinarily drowsy all day long. Dr. Eugene Fagan Traut gave her a thorough examination, could ind nothing wrong with her. Within a fortnight the attack of epidemic encephalitis (sleeping sickness) from which Patricia Maguire suffered put her into a stupor from which she has not yet recovered. Her case attracted widespread newspaper attention. On the anniversary of her first symptoms, on her birthday, at every change in her condition, the Press retold the strange case of Patricia Maguire (TIME, Dec. 17, et ante). Not until last week, however...