Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scandalous and defamatory." This he did because, said he, the Philadelphia Record did wickedly contrive and falsely and maliciously intend to bring him (McLean) into public disrepute and "to cause it to be suspected and believed that he attended a dinner at the Belgian Embassy in a disgraceful and drunken condition and that at such a dinner he had annoyed and shocked guests of the Belgian Ambassador and that the Belgian Ambassador was perplexed and ordered the plaintiff to leave in order to save his other guests from further embarrassment." In his declaration Plaintiff McLean said that "the plaintiff...
Madame X (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When the heroine, drunken, degraded, cast off by her husband and forbidden to see her son, screams to the bully who has beaten her that some day her son will be big enough to revenge her?when she is brought to court a murderess, too poor to hire a lawyer, and the judge appoints to defend her a handsome young man, yes, the son himself?and when the young man passionately and skillfully pleads the cause of the outcast woman?it all seems, on cool reflection, too crude to be true. But audiences...
...notice with interest the statement in TIME, that the author of the "Jones Law," or the ''Five & Ten," "had seen only one drunken man in his life" (TIME, April 1). If the Senator made such statement, I would like to recall to his mind, when he must have seen them as many as three at a time, unless he was "seeing without eyes." This particular instance was about the time, in 1889, or the early '90s, when he was employed as a stenographer by Spike & Arnold, in Yakima, Wash., and one of his former employers, Sidney...
...large, loose-knit man born 65 years ago in Bethany, Ill., Senator Jones has never taken a drink (that he knows of), has never smoked tobacco, has seen, he says, only one drunken man in all his life. His range of legislative interest has by no means been confined to prohibition. No smooth speaker, never brilliant, his name is nevertheless upon the latest Merchant Marine Act (Jones-White) under which eleven great Shipping Board vessels were recently sold (TIME, Feb. 18). All day every day during Senate sessions he can be found in his aisle seat, behind an embankment...
Silenus. In Athenian drama, Pappo-silenus (Daddy Silenus) was the father of many Silenuses. In Greek mythology the handsome Hermes begat a single Silenus. This paunchy roisterer was the tutor of Dionysus. Together they cultivated bees and vines, sampled the wines. Peter Paul Rubens painted Der Trunkene Silen (The Drunken Silenus) reeling over a woman and her babes, supported by a satyr and a blackamoor, followed by a panther. This picture, long owned by the late Prince John of Lichtenstein, was sold, last week, for $30,000 to Mark Lindebaum, Viennese engineer and oil tycoon...