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- 591: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... became assistant editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, published at Richmond by T.W. White. It was at this time that Poe went through a period of emotional instability that he tried to control by drinking. This was a mistake because he was extremely sensitive to alcohol and became very drunk just from one or two drinks. In May of 1836 Poe married his cousin, Virginia and brought her and her ...
- 592: Dr. Seuss: The Great American Children's Poet
- ... Ted also had an older sister named Marnie. He went to college at Dartmouth and graduate school at Oxford. While at Dartmouth he got into a bit of trouble when the police arrested him for drinking. (This was during the Prohibition.) As punishment he was kicked off the school magazine, The Jack O'Lantern, to which he contributed as a cartoonist. To get around the rule he began to sign his ...
- 593: Booker T. Washington: Fighter for the Black Man
- ... 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 ...
- 594: The Life of Mao Zedong
- ... peasants for selectively relying on Chinese traditions of order, harmony, and filial piety. While praising the peasants for abandoning the worship of Gods and rejecting Buddhism, he congratulates the peasants puritan prohibitions against gambling and drinking wine. Although the peasants rejected "the traditional Buddhist religion" by spurning idols, Mao praises the peasants for saving certain idols such as, a statue of Pao Cheng who was a official in the Sung Dynasty ...
- 595: A Portrait of Duke Ellington By Tracy Frech
- ... Duke's band returned to America the band really began feeling the hardship and sorrow of traveling on the road, being separated from loved ones. Also, many of the band members, including Duke, began developing drinking problems and started making some of the musicians lives miserable. What made things worse was the fact that Duke's mother, Daisy, died in May of 1935 that set Duke into a deep depression and ...
- 596: 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 ...
- 597: John D. Rockefeller: Obsession Into Success
- ... an obsessive-compulsive. While Rockefeller encouraged illegal railroad rebates and even invented a few new ones (such as the "drawback", a variation on the kickback) he was an adamant churchgoer. He strongly disapproved of: smoking, drinking, card playing, dancing, merriment, "wenching", theatre going, concert going, banqueting, idling, socializing in general and "good fellowship". He took no vacations, no time off. He did nothing in his small amount of free time except ...
- 598: Abraham of Chaldea
- ... with water, the servant ran to meet her and asked her for a drink. Rebekah quickly let down her jar and told him she would draw water for his camels also. After the camels finished drinking, the servant gave her gold ring and two bracelets and asked her who her father was. Rebekah said she was the daughter of Nahor and ran to show her family the jewelry. After some convincing ...
- 599: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... play Enderby directed in the USA. Enderby falls in love with the actress that plays the part of 'the Dark Lady', April Egar. When his love is not returned, Enderby deal with the pain by drinking excessively. In the end, Enderby's play was a huge success, but Enderby never wins the heart of April (Burgess Enderby's Dark Lady). For example, the previously mentioned beating of Burgess's wife Lynne ...
- 600: William Faulkner
- ... Famous Creoles, a volume of drawings by William Spratling, one of his Mew Orleans friends. In his book there is a drawing by Spratling of Faulkner and himself sitting at a table painting, writing, and drinking. On the wall there is a sigh reading "Viva Art". Beneath Faulkner's chair are three gallons of corm liquor. In June 1925, Faulkner and Spratling shipped on a freighter for Italy and a walking ...
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