Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boiler is now on view for the second week at the Keith Memorial in "Primrose Path." Unoriginal in conception, dull--often interminable--in pace and direction, it tells the story of a sweet young thing (Ginger Rogers) caught in the sordid atmosphere created by a prostitute-mother, a constantly drunken father, and an incredibly cruel grandmother. Falling in love with Joel McCrea because he nearly kills her by reckless driving, she conceals her true identity, has the usual misunderstandings, and emerges happy ever after...
...Fall. Son of a Welsh miner, Williams did not speak English till he was eight, did not see a professional show till he was 19. Playing in London are his autobiographical The Corn Is Green, packing them in after 600 performances, and The Light of Heart, story of a drunken, down-at-heel actor who gets his last chance to stage a comeback in a myth ical Charles B. Cochran production of King Lear...
...They were pretty good follows, offered us some beer and a little corn," was Rochester's hurried description of his abduction Tuesday night by a group of "drunken Dekes" from M.I.T...
Said the Pink Reporter recently, "The Ayers tribe are skunky eggs. For instance, Ben Moulton, now a member of the grafting state liquor crooks ... by the grace of a drunken so-called governor, [State Senator] Dale Woods . . . and one L. M. A. Wass . . . are all former chums of Whiskey Ayers, and all just as corrupt, including [State Senator] H. H. 'Haywire' Haight...
...nitrous oxide (laughing gas), some medical students went on jags, taking a few whiffs of one drug or the other until half-conscious and happily drunk. In the early 1840s,'dashing young Dr. Long sniffed ether at parties, but was clear-headed enough to notice that his drunken friends, if they came to blows, felt no pain. So one day in 1842, he fearfully soaked a towel in ether, anesthetized a friend before removing a tumor...