Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood, during a brief slip into the meandering footprints of his late convivial father, Actor John Barrymore Jr., 25, was nabbed for being drunk and disturbing the peace at 1 a.m. while tiffing with wife Cara in his parked car. He drew a $100 fine and a 90-day jail stretch that was suspended provided he spends his next three weekends in jail. Said Junior later: "I tried some rum concoctions and they tasted like punch. They didn't act that way. I'm through with liquor...
Drunkometers and other gizmos favored by highway police say that a man is drunk if his breath or blood shows a certain concentration of alcohol. But some men and women get reeling drunk on a couple of drinks while others can swig a fifth and not show it. Also, a man who has been putting away half a dozen highballs every evening for years without batting an eyelash may suddenly find himself getting the staggers after one cocktail...
...reasons, writes Dutch-born Psychiatrist Joost A. M. Meerloo in Postgraduate Medicine, are physical and general. In a crowded, unventilated room there is less oxygen to burn the alcohol in the blood, so the effects of two or three drinks pile up and may make even a seasoned drinker drunk. There is also lower oxygen tension at high altitudes, so drinking is risky in the mountains or in unpressurized airplanes (Dr. Meerloo is not sure about pressurized cabins). In the humid tropics the easy burning of alcohol may cause "an uneasy feeling of congestion" and give the drinker a lower...
...neurosis have been shown to make victims react violently to a soothing drink or drugs. In several cases that Dr. Meerloo has seen, he suspects that intense fear altered the subjects' metabolism completely. It may be, he suggests, that any kind of stress, including the fear of getting drunk and looking ridiculous, increases the danger that it will happen...
...Biegler, the prosecuting attorney-who is also Biegler's rival in an imminent congressional election-brings in a crack assistant from the attorney general's staff at the state capital. To save his client, Biegler has only his own wits, the assistance of an able but often drunk colleague, and a secretary given depressingly to imitating the wisecracks in an Erie Stanley Gardner mystery...