Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...something I'm going to show you. That's the stone hammer that the Indians were going to kill Captain John Smith with the time that Pocahontas rushed in and saved him. The old chief I got it from told me that. I was five years old and so drunk I could hardly stand up the day I took it out of his tent, after he'd been killed in a fight...
...students and 50 teachers have safely returned the news is slowly circulating that "dear old F. U." was not nearly as bad as it had been painted, that the girls were not such a bad influence after all, and that the students did a great deal besides getting drunk and filling the pages of the newspapers. No doubt many of them returned with a new interest in the affairs of the world, and an understanding of its problems, Perhaps one of that group may be the leader of the future so needed to promote good will and break down...
...client against the producers of The Merry Widow. To newsgatherers M. Danilo explained passionately: "There is a 'Prince Danilo' in that film. . . . Gentlemen, I am Prince Danilo. There is no other! ... I am unspeakably pained to see myself travestied by a cheap cinema star* as staggering drunk through the Bois de Boulogne and dancing on tables in Maxim's, and at the same time trying to marry a widow for her fortune. I demand the immediate payment of 50,000 francs [$2,000]. The film constitutes a serious libel on myself, my family, chiefly my sister...
There have been other names; less genteel, derived more directly from the Saxon, but still--other names. Police records describe the state as that of "intoxication." The Innocent bystander is content to analyze it as merely "drunk". And the young collegiate, ever ready to increase his vocabulary, has a host of terms in stock, from the concise "tight" to the quaintness of "potted". But it has remained for the W. C. T. U. or its New England branch, to define the condition with due branch, to define the condition with due respect to the recent amendment. If or when...
...Manhattan, one Tai Leong, 35, was sentenced to ten days in the workhouse. He was charged with disorderly conduct because he caused a crowd near Delancey St. to "gape and surround" him and to laugh uproariously at his grotesque capers. He was laughing, leaping, singing?drunk on tea, which he crammed into his mouth dry. Since tea was not on the contrabrand list, policemen could not confiscate it when he was jailed...