Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Manhattan. "New York is a city of great rectitude," he explained. "I'd heard so much about the wickedness of it before I came here this time that I was greatly interested to see what truth there was in it. Why, I haven't seen a drunken person since I've been here! Maybe there is drinking, but in a city of six million people, it's remarkable that you don't see more of it. Why the Graphic? It's a good newspaper to work for, and just because...
...merriment. Here, with set faces, dances nightly a band of "hostesses." From vaudeville (where they have failed) they come, from little towns that seemed too slow, from little flats that seemed too small. Dancing is no pleasure to them. Dancing is their business. Be it the breath of a drunken sailor that blows warm past their cheeks or the wit of the dullest tomlinson that assails their ears, they must dance and sometimes smile...
When Preacher Wilson got up to reply, the audience began to leave. Vexed, he called for fair play, shouted that prohibition was a "modern miracle," assailed "Drunken England...
Across the White House luncheon table Henry Ford discussed prohibition with President Hoover, then stepped in front of the White House to announce: "Prohibition is here to stay. Absolute enforcement must come. . . . Nobody wants to fly with a drunken aviator...