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...There ye are allowed, nay, even urged, to exert your exuberance in any manner short of breaking chairs. Fit buit for your witty sallies is that touching dra-a-ama, resurrected in all its pristine glory from P.T. Barnum's American Museum, vintage 18 34,--I speak of "The Drunkard, or the Fallen Saved". Ye may hiss the deep-dyed villian, Lawyer Cribbs; ye may shout "Look out," or "Youse is a viper," as he prepares to enmesh in his toils that jewel, that unfortunate yet loyal wife of the intemperate Edward Middleton. Ye may join lustily in the song...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/20/1935 | See Source »

...land. To that, the Senator snorts that every fundamental Owen contribution to the plan was erased before its passage. What is more, he fumes, judging from the number of people claiming to be the father of the Federal Reserve "its mother must have been a drunkard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Credit by Government | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

Jonas Lauretz, mountaineer sawmiller, was a hard man and not a good one. A notable blasphemer, drunkard, cuckolder and seducer, he was a byword in the district, but his neighbors did not know the half of it. He beat his wife, crippled his son, tried to rape his daughter, kept them all in terrified submission. Only his daughter Sylvelie, a flower-on-the-dunghill type, regarded him without loathing. She escaped some of the family horror by working as house-servant and model to a famed old painter, who in gratitude left her a small fortune when he died. Because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alpine Stock | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...Rice classic has been brought to the screen intact. It is a story of life in a small Ohio town during the later buggy and moustache cup period, only a few decades removed in time, but centuries away in spirit. The peg-top trousers and bombazine gowns, the town drunkard and the cruel banker, even the glorious extravaganza at the local "opera house" all bespeak that happy epoch before the pestilence known as Radio had standardized our American scene...

Author: By W. L. W., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...were married. Following an abortion, Florence picked up her mother's morphine habit. Florence ran away from her husband, bigamously married a second, divorced No. 1 and married a third. No. 3 left her when he discovered that she was a drug addict and, between drug spells, a drunkard. To get drugs she shrewdly took jobs as nurse or attendant in insane asylums. At 54, she is still an addict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRIME: Why Girls Go Wrong | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

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