Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begins with Cripure cruelly rebuffing one of his old students who, on the eve of leaving for the front, has come to him for advice and help. It carries him through his classes, where his students pull all their dirty tricks, through his drunken afternoon, when agonizing memories assail him, into the climactic, ridiculous night, when he finds himself challenged to a duel. Around him tragedies worse than his own are piling up. The headmaster's son has been shot; French troops have mutinied; there have been riots at the railway as the troops embarked for the front...
Wedding Present (Paramount). Cinema newspaper people, merely drunken sots a few years ago, have kept on topping each other's efforts in irresponsibility. Currently newshawks on the screen are, with few exceptions (see below), practically indistinguishable from run-of-the-mill lunatics. Wedding Present turns a couple of these creatures loose to follow the bidding of their erratic temperaments. The result, however insulting to the dignity of the trade, is efficacious and at times uproarious comedy...
...bitter conflict with the latent notability, in her, to lure Gary and his belt full of the people's money into the grasping yellow hands of General Yang, war lord and fiendish oppressor of some unnamed Chinese province. Before this unhappy state of affairs is set aright by a drunken man's knife plunged into the general's belly just before the crack of dawn, pretty faces have to be slapped, bullets to fly, traitors to be betrayed, instruments of torture to be brandished, and never-say-die men to be put to the acid test. The looker...
Last March The New Republic carried a searching disquisition into automobile accidents, made no mention of drunken driving as a cause. For this omission it was soundly berated by that pious, prohibitionist magazine, The Christian Advocate. Three weeks ago The New Republic replied editorially: "The reason we did not mention it in our earlier discussion was that our article was confined to the major factors in the annual death toll, which is now running to about 38,000 annually, and we were not and are not aware that drunkenness is one of these factors. The Travelers Insurance Co. . . . while recognizing...
...pamper it, bolster it as you may. The show starts with the marriage of Baxter and Myrna Loy, he a conscientious, hard-working architect; and she apparently a conventionally affectionate young bride. As the show progressed Baxter remained true to his original type, and to this added occasional drunken sprees which involved him, rather innocently, though not deeply with a gay young thing named Kitty. Naturally this brought chastisement from his wife. But she failed to realize that incidents of this kind only occurred when she was away in Maine having a good time "before she was ninety...