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...librarian, although we can't imagine why, concocted a blurb on bananas--and the return mail brought a congratulatory note (with prize). We should like to recommend to this same quintet that they now look to the University's honor in the "Blotto" contest, sponsored by a local newspaper. Fair Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...managed to identify himself as Captain James Allan Mollison, famed British aviator and husband of famed British Aviatrix Amy Johnson Mollison. Sobered, fined $10, Captain Mollison explained in court next morning: "When I consumed three or four cocktails, more or less, it rather topped me. Not at all blotto, you understand, but just jingled, so to speak. I felt top hole but when a couple of your bobbies drove up alongside and suggested that I get in their bus I gladly accepted their invitation. I told them I was on my way to a night club, the Trocadero, and thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 10, 1936 | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

Hero Casanova Jones, "a gentleman sober, a gentleman blotto," is a Prohibition agent whose wife runs a speakeasy. Beautiful but thick Annabel Cloy imagines herself a poet, and is overjoyed when Casanova, pretending to be a publisher, says he will print her Poems of Passion, is enraged when she discovers his duplicity. From this out, the plot becomes more and more revue-worthy. In the end Casanova, in a vain attempt to regain Annabel's affections, goes deliberately to jail by selling liquor on the street. His example becomes popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prohibition in Prosody & Prose | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...best spot on the bill from the attitude of pure entertainment is the two-reel comedy "Blotto", the quintessence of which is entirely Laurel and Hardy. Under the direction of James Parrot, these slapstickers have raised the art of pie-slinging to a level surpassing everybody but, and equalling Monsieur Chaplin. The gags and plot are worse than mediocre but thanks to two exquisitely mobile faces Laurel and Hardy have their audience rolling about floors and tearing the distinctive features off armchairs...

Author: By J. J. R. jr., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/20/1930 | See Source »

From the point of view of the college undergraduate who leaves Cambridge for comic relief, the latest effort of sex filled Clara is blotto. The only relief is in seeing the bell hop-ushers dash fragrant gummers into their idea of ducal grandeur...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/25/1927 | See Source »

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