Word: drunkard
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...horn-pipe." Sly, peremptory and puzzled he makes love to his cook in a squeaky voice, smashes his possessions so constantly that when he falls into a stupor his servants put some chinaware beside him for him to break when he wakes up. Indignant at the captain, the drunkard orders four servants to throw him out, and mounts a chair, clapping his hands & popeyed with excitement, to see them do it. When he learns that his cook is the captain's wife, he becomes sad and has a drink...
...Matron of Morsels will entertain as black-face comedienne, in her inimitable interpretations of 'mammy' songs. By popular request the Senior Tutor will cast aside academic dignity as a concession to the holiday season, and sing that famous and lachrymose lyric of the frigid Forties, entitled 'Father's a Drunkard and Mother's Dead, or Poor Little Bessie's Plea for Bread...
...came to be there or where they are going. Slowly the realization comes to them that they have died, that their destination is eternity. It is an unusual picture because it contains none of the elements commonly accepted as having picture appeal. A dowager, a charwoman, a financier, a drunkard and a pair of unhappy lovers are capably presented by a cast that includes Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Helen Chandler, Leslie Howard. When the interest weakens it is not the fault of the picturemakers but of the writing. Playwright Sutton Vane was not completely successful in creating the terror and grandeur...
Main proviso: The employer of an habitual drunkard shall pay half his wages to his wife or family...
Dictator Ibanez's definition of an "habitual drunkard": one whom the duly constituted courts of Chile shall have convicted of being drunk five times in six months or eleven times within the space of one year...