Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...urge an old-fashioned revival among the state's sinners, and within two hours the senate had passed a bill to make the state bone dry. Cried Senator Tom E. Rich, during the breast-beating which preceded a 34-to-5 vote: "I used to go home drunk and stumble over . . . my children...
Bully Boys. Success, however, went to Hogjaw's head. Only a year and a half later he got drunk, threatened some Negroes with a shotgun, resisted arrest and was sent back to the prison farm. He was not particularly dismayed; he was made keeper of the prison bloodhounds, was well fed, and was allowed to go off on criminal tracking jaunts when law officers asked for use of the dogs...
They decided to "get" the sharecropper. Using a spoon and a beer opener, they chipped mortar away from the bricks of their cell in the ancient Attala County jail at Kosciusko. One night they broke out, armed themselves, got loose-mouthed and hot-eyed drunk on white lightning corn liquor, and then headed for the Negro's cabin again...
...incident began on the evening of March 21, 1949. After a fraternity drinking party, five juniors and a sophomore, "undoubtedly drunk" according to their lawyer, went up to Cirrotta's room. During a short struggle following an argument, Cirrotta struck his head against a table. After being removed to a hospital, he died following an emergency brain operation...
Three Grades. Dr. Seliger puts drinkers into three categories: moderate social drinkers, heavy social drinkers, and alcoholics. The social drinker, he says, "can stop drinking at will . . . [Even at parties he] usually stops short of actually getting drunk to the extent of not knowing what he is doing. [He does not get] involved in real jams, fights with strangers, police...