Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Edith Day, 30, comedienne, from Patrick Somerset, 29, English actor, by default, in Minneapolis, though she was in London, he in Hollywood, Calif. They first appeared together in 1920 in the English production of Irene. She charged that he was "continually drunk," used "vile and indecent" language, struck...
...Buck, after years and years under Ziegfeld, has stepped into the limelight of production with his own show, including Leon Errol and charging $25 admission for the first night. Actor Errol is famed in the theatrical profession for the way his legs wobble when he is supposed to be drunk. His present vehicle, a gargantuan jumble full of ridiculously costumed regiments of chorines, also wobbles. The distinction, of course, is that Mr. Errol's precarious underpinning is comical, whereas the production's is not. The hero (not Actor Errol) is head of the narcotic squad...
...Returning home one evening he found that one of his most precious books had been gnawed by his favorite dog Beppo. Instead of chastising the dog he simply took up the fragments of the book and wrote on one of the remaining leaves: 'Beppo aid this when he was drunk.' As to the speech of the Senator from Alabama, I can say: 'He made his speech when he was excited.' " [Laughter and applause in the galleries...
...English, Ind., frenzied neighbors killed "mad" dogs, then ruefully discovered that the dogs had been lapping at the English garbage pails. The pails contained the townsmen's weekly residue of moonshine mash, and the dogs had been only drunk...
...stag at eve had drunk his fill...