Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Septimus Winner was a plain man who, on the side, wrote blank verse for which he had no talent, worried discreetly over his drunken father. He was also responsible for 200 texts on how to play instruments, 2,000 piano and violin arrangements. His brother Joseph determined to write song hits too, resoundingly succeeded once with Little Brown Jug, Don't I Love Thee. As Septimus was more prolific, so was his end more picturesque. On a fine November day in 1902 he attended the dedication of a new building for his alma mater, the old High School, shook...
...precisely this point of view as contrasted with Norman Maine's own evaluation of his decline and its effect on his wife that gives the latter portion of A Star Is Born its effectiveness. The drunken speech in which Maine betrays his jealousy when his wife gets an Academy Award; his sojourn in a sanatorium to recover from the jitters; his fist fight with Niles's pressagent at Santa Anita race track, are related with superlative detachment. They lead up to the climactic scene in which sunset on the Pacific-a magnificent shot which is possibly the best...
...their rifles and drove a few miles south of Plattsmouth to a filling station. Waiting there they soon saw a car racing along at 60 m. p. h. They let it pass and followed it. Soon the bandits slowed down, began to drive a weaving course pretending they were drunken drivers to tempt their pursuers alongside. The Sylvesters refused to be tempted, finally cornered their men at the dead end of a street in Plattsmouth. Sheriff Sylvester and his brother had them covered. Power and Suhay surrendered without a shot, were disarmed and handcuffed. A few hours later, Federal Agents...
...onto his balancing pole, lies down on his back and rolls over. The Wallendas and Grotofents now not only match this but, as if it were not enough to turn a spectator's head snowy white, send one of their number out on the wire to do a drunken rhumba...
...guest bedroom. She tries to frighten him by lending him a pair of gargantuan pajamas which, she says, her husband has discarded as too small. In the picture's funniest sequence she puts on a pair of hiking boots, clumps up the stairs in simulation of a drunken male's arrival while Raymond, swathed in yards of striped pongee, listens trembling in his bedroom. Next day, after he has volunteered to act as butler at a dinner she is giving to celebrate her engagement, Raymond is horrified to find her fiance is his own brother, Claude (Reginald Owen...