Word: staggering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles, charged with drunkenness, Glen Quiney took off his shoes, testified: "Sure I stagger and shuffle. You would too if you had feet like mine. Look at those corns and those fallen arches." The jury looked, acquitted...
...best method Fitzpatrick has yet devised is to stagger in with a champagne glass, pretending to be just "one of the boys." When asked what was his most embarrassing moment, the scourge of the pretty debs blushed while admitting that once he cut in on an old man dancing with a "fetching girl robed in white taffeta" (courtesy Betty Alden's column, "On Beacon Hill") and asked her "Who was that old geezer you were dancing with?" The fetching girl etc. responded lightly and politely, "Oh him. He's my father. He's giving the party...
This year Hal blessed with perhaps only three "natural" swimmers: Jim Curwen, who can loaf through any free-style race fact enough to make the stopwatch stagger; Art Bosworth, those ideal swimming build enables him to be a sure point-winner in either sprints or backstroke, and Kric Cutler, absent last year, but enough of an expert so that he will probably remain unbeaten this year in any 220 or 440 free-style event he swims...
Three 3½-year-old female elephants enter the ring, sit around a table, get three steins filled with colored water which resembles beer.* They sip their drinks, act increasingly tipsy, stagger around the ring, finally gulp down the water. While a trainer sings Show Me the Way To go Home, one by one the elephants sink to the ground, pretend to pass...
...grandma; the pre-Freudian, high-neck-and-long-sleeves maiden aunt; the warm-hearted servant girl (Peggy O'Donnell). Some of the humor gets grey hairs: The tenth time grandma upbraids grandpa for swearing is scarcely as funny as the first. The narrative, toward the end, begins to stagger and stutter. And Mr. Brink (Frank Conroy) stays up in the apple tree long enough to make the captious wonder if it isn't time for the leaves to turn. But that may be because the tree looks (as grandpa would put it) so goddamn natural...