Word: stuporously
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...publisher keeps ringing him on the telephone. Otherwise you might be doubtful, for he spends his mornings fighting hangovers with antidotes of tomato juice, and his evenings trying to clear his chambers of pesky women. One of these vampires marries him while they are both in an alcoholic stupor. A second slinks dangerously in and out until murdered by a third. The wife nobly assumes the guilt, is exonerated under the unwritten law, and leaves her husband with the sobbing little murderess. Conceived by a vaudeville actress, Winnie Baldwin, this pastiche of variety show emotions and humors succeeds in being...
...John Callahan actually scaled the 20-ft. wall of Manhattan's Tombs with tenacious hands and feet. Two keepers conducting one Dr. Theodore Gallaudet to the same bleak prison were magnificently wined-dined by their prisoner en route. In their stupor he left the restaurant on a pretext, went to Havana and Paris where his family joined him, lived happily and immune thereafter...
...unsavory rooming house, where a blue-chinned bootlegger appeared. Boyd sampled his wares and found them unpalatable. When the bootlegger asked for pay, Boyd refused. A tussle ensued. The bootlegger produced a revolver. Paula snatched a convenient bottle and felled him. Then while Boyd dropped in a drunken stupor over the bootlegger's corpse, guilty Paula crept away...
...barber took all his savings out of the bank and bet them on a horse race. The horse he bet on did not win. Discouraged, the barber spent the night in drunken orgy and stupor. Early in the morning he killed himself...
...feet of Mercedes Gleitz touched chalk rocks on the South shore of England. Exclamatory, she thanked God she was conscious and then fell into stupor for two hours. Fifteen hours and 15 minutes earlier her feet had lost touch with French rocks at Cape Gris Nez. Succeeding on her eighth attempt, a typist, 26 of London, Miss Gleitz is the twelfth person and the third woman-to swim the English Channel. It has not been swum so late in the year by man or woman...