Word: drunkeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stinko! That's what he is. Always drunk. Funniest thing you ever did see to see him fall down the steps of his house! Look at his poor...
Griffin looked at the old man sprawled upon the stone steps. He looked at him again and turned to run away to tell his friends his father was drunk...
...protection. With his Adam's apple bobbing, Tackett kept glancing nervously back at the bosses and deputies in the audience as he told the Senate Committee how the dynamiting had been plotted among Unthank, himself, Patterson and the prosecuting attorney of adjoining Bell County. He had been too drunk to do the job, he twanged, but had been paid $30 to keep his mouth shut. He knew the money came from the Harlan County Coal Operators' Association because Unthank had told...
Good Old Soak (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Old Clem Hawley (Wallace Beery) is a likable small-town toper, whose worst sin is getting drunk with his crony, Al (Ted Healy), and Mrs. Hawley's hired girl. Young Clem Hawley (Eric Linden) is an obnoxious young bank clerk who steals his mother's savings to repay money embezzled from the till to buy summer ermine for a night club dancer. Ostracized by his wife and suspected of his son's theft, Old Clem Hawley shows what he is made of. He explodes his son's romance with...
...King's College Chapel ("an old sow lying on its back") the sight depressed him. reminded him of "an old comb lacking half its teeth." Manhattanites struck him as "uncomfortable, nervous, harassed, brutal, sullen, dehumanized." The U. S. method of solving social problems roused his scorn: "Folks get drunk on alcohol? Easy: abolish alcohol. . . . Dour dramas corrupted Sweet Sixteen? Easy: censor the drama. Crazy communists upset bedtime story mood of bourgeois gentlemen? Easy: jail 'em and let the Supreme Court of the U. S. outlaw their nonsense." The press so disgusted him that he confined his reading...