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- 1021: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... daughter, Virginia, to live with him. A little later he married his cousin, Virginia, who was some years younger than he. From that time on, the three formed a household. He has many problems with drinking and therefore his job was on and off. Soon after moving to New York, his poem, The Raven, was published in the New York Evening Mirror. It was reprinted in a number of magazines, and ...
- 1022: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... got into difficulties almost at once. Mr. Allan did not provide him with the money to pay for his fees and other necessities. Poe was confused and homesick. He learned to play cards and started drinking. Soon he was in debt in excess of two thousand dollars. Poe discovered that he could not depend upon Allan for financial support. His foster father refused to pay his debts, and Poe had to ...
- 1023: Drew Barrymore
- ... and clubs. She also was known as "E.T.s pal, Gertie, parties till 3." Soon Drew started smoking, sneaking sips of her older friends drinks, and experimenting with drugs. As her drug use and drinking grew more addicting, she could hardly hide it from the outside world. Drew first started using cocaine when she was 13 years old, at the time she didnt think she would become addicted to ...
- 1024: Booker T. Washington
- ... His step-father had escaped earlier, and had gotten a job in Malden, West Virginia, at a salt furnace. When the war ended, he sent for Washington and his mom. Life was tough in Malden. "Drinking, gambling, quarrels, fights, and shockingly immoral practices were frequent." Washington himself got a job in the salt furnace and often had to go to work at four in the morning. Washington longed for an education ...
- 1025: William Lyon Mackenzie
- ... his early years, Mackenzie led a dissipated life of wondering among the streets and was reduced to booze and gambling. At an age of 17 to 21, he claimed that he had given up on drinking and gambling. On July 17, 1814, his illegitimate son was born. What he had done to Isabel Reid, mother of his son, was a sinful deed. ("Mackenzie" 1976: 407) He did not assume responsibility for ...
- 1026: Willem De Kooning
- ... s art was of mutually exclusive contradictions without the resolution of synthesis, of harmony and balance. By the end of 1970s, he had reached a point of near total spiritual exhaustion- partly due to heavy drinking and partly for a tendency to forgetfulness and a gradual detachment from the world around him. Much was said of Kooning about his last drawings, " as a doodling of a helpless old man," but the ...
- 1027: Ulysses S. Grant 2
- ... and Chapultepec. After his return and tours of duty in the North, he was sent to the Far West. In 1854, while stationed at Fort Humboldt, California, Grant resigned his commission because of loneliness and drinking problems, and in the following years he engaged in generally unsuccessful farming and business ventures in Missouri. (Grant Moves South, 18) He moved to Galena, Illinois, in 1860, where he became a clerk in his ...
- 1028: Pablo Picasso 2
- ... In 1961 Picasso settled in the rustic house at Notre-Dame-de-Vie. Between the Ages of 85 and 92, Picasso produced three series of drawings of extraordinary newness. They include mythological scenes, circus scenes, drinking and party scenes, and passionate scenes (82 drawings and washes, 1966-67) mingling Penelopes and Ledas, charioteers, and musketeers. The same themes were treated more realistically in 347 untitled engravings (March-October 1968) showing spanish ...
- 1029: Neil Simon
- ... into effect. McClung spoke frequently and adamantly of the evils of "demon liquor" and its effect on the family. Firstly, Nellie felt that alcohol primarily affected women and children as they suffered directly from excessive drinking on the part of males. Domestic violence, physical and emotional abuse, and profanity caused turmoil in family life when alcohol was not effectively controlled. It was also argued that women who abused alcohol may have ...
- 1030: Mccarthyism
- ... written by him, but most senators didn't approve these, probably to avoid association with the "worst senator". He had lost his honour, and rightly so. As a result of his lower status, he began drinking heavily. Sometimes he would be drunk for days on end. He was frequently hospitalized, and although McCarthy and his doctors claimed reasons such as abrasions or broken bones, he was really dying from alcohol-induced ...
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