Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...after the publication of This Side of Paradise, 23-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald returned to Princeton one day in 1920 for a banquet of former editors of the Nassau Lit. There, as usual, he began to drink, crowned Dean Christian Gauss with a laurel wreath and got so drunk that Cottage Club suspended him. "For seven years," wrote Fitzgerald later, "I didn't go to Princeton. Then a magazine asked me to write an article about it and when I started to write it, I found I really loved the place...
KING JOHN : O, where hath our intelligence been drunk? Where hath it slept...
...gibe was justified. MacArthur's intelligence, headed by Major General Charles A. Willoughby, had not been either drunk or asleep; nevertheless it had failed to find out what it should have found out about the enemy...
When he tired of India, Hatschier decided to ship off to Rio de Janciro. In order to learn Portuguese, an essential for hotel managers in Brazil, he took a job as an overseers on a sugar caue plantation. One night, he encountered a drunk stranger and helped him to bed. The man turned out to be the owner a large claim of South American hotels, who, in appreciation of Hatschier's kindness, made him manager of the Plazza Hotel-in Bucnos Aires...
...might conclude that the institution on the Charles is a miasma of leftists and people in-ordinately concerned with something sexual called parietal rules. If he attended one of the dances (and were he in a carping mood), he might report that The Harvard Man is an objectionable drunk with a St. Grottlesex accent...