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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prinney spent his wedding night dead drunk and ended up on the edge of the fireplace, where his bride let him sleep it off undisturbed. After the birth of their child and heir, Princess Charlotte, nine months later, the future King of England sent Caroline formal notification that he would require no further wifely duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Queen in Tights | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

Your Cinema reviewer obviously thinks that I'll Cry Tomorrow [Jan. 23] is about some drunk who sobered up and got a second chance, or as he put it "a second career as a nightclub singer." He profoundly states: "A drunk, however, is a drunk," and "if there is anything more tedious than a lush, it is apt to be a reformed lush." Millions of people felt a choking feeling in their throats when they read Lillian Roth's life story; countless alcoholics, fighting their hard struggle to return to the world of reality, have been inspired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1956 | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

Your critic's verbal sideswipe was obviously an attempt at tin-pot philosophy, concocted from a vacant mind and a typewriter with keys. Has he ever been drunk for 16 years? Has he ever had to fight with anything outside of an empty tube of toothpaste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1956 | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

Testimonial. In Hawthorne, Calif., Donald Lee Summers was sentenced to 60 days in jail when he showed up drunk for his arraignment on an intoxication charge, grumped: "I came to California for the hospitality, and this is what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 13, 1956 | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...Defense Rests. In Chicago, when police questioned him about the attempted robbery of a warehouse, Edward ("Butch") Panczko, a veteran of 63 arrests, indignantly protested his innocence: "I don't know nothing, and I can prove it; I was home in bed blind drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 6, 1956 | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

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