Word: stupors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handsome man. he attracted women by the scores (at least two of his castoff in amoratas committed suicide). By 1935, though, Bodenheim was no longer in vogue. Sales of his murky verse (Minna and Myself) and erotic novels (Replenishing Jessica) dwindled away, and he sank gradually into the bleary stupor of the alcoholic. He flapped disconsolately around the Village resting up periodically in the Bellevue alcoholic ward, sleeping in gutters, hallways and subways (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952). On a rainswept night three years ago, he met his third wife, a writer of sorts, in the middle of Washington Square. Ruth...
...heavily wooded area ten miles east of Kansas City. They drove away. Carl Hall scrambled up from a hiding place under the bridge. He put the bag in the station wagon parked in a thicket near by. Bonnie Heady, he said later, was sprawled "in an alcoholic stupor" in the car. Hall did not wait round to count the money-three times larger than any ransom ever paid in the U.S. He never did get around to counting...
...Daylight comes, but in the 24th hour, Lindbergh has to strike his face and arms viciously and stamp his feet to keep awake. Over and over again he does his navigation chores: ". . . And 12 make 23. Twenty-three-what do I want with 23?" But even in a semi-stupor, he does his chores right. In the 27th hour, he joyously sights some fishing smacks. Diving to 50 ft., he throttles his motor and yells: "Which way is Ireland?" He gets no answer, but within an hour he is over the Irish coast. Then come the Cornish cliffs of England...
...Smear Lipstick commercial. Last week Edwards addressed Lillian Roth as if he were a supernatural prosecutor: "Confusion, distress and tragedy walked by your side even as you rose to the top-and soon all glamour was stripped from you, as drink follows drink, and you sink into a stupor that was to last for 16 years. These are the years to come before us in just a moment...
Many drunks actually drown themselves in their own blood, according to Dr. Michael A. Laongo, who gave a slide-talk on legal medicine last night in Langdell Hall. The drunks fall, break open their faces, and lie in a stupor while their blood seeps into their luags and asphyxiates them, Luongo said...