Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curly-haired Buddy Rogers is a janitor's son. He does not know this because when his mother died the county supervisors refused to trust his rearing to his drunken father and put him in an orphanage. Years have passed and the father, sober enough now to hold the job he has gotten in a Princeton dormitory, gets word that his son has been given the thousand dollars he has sent and will arrive to enter Princeton about the same time as the letter. He is advised not to reveal his identity...
...military scholarship and embraced the career of arms under the doomed Dragon Throne. When patriotic bombs began to pop, Chiang Kai-shek (then a stripling of 24) secured command of a revolutionary brigade in Shanghai and lived for several months the gay life of a looter, profligate ?drunken and debauched. Suddenly he cut short this spree and when convivial friends assembled to remonstrate he cried: ''You are my friends! My friends? Bah! I have given up your kind of life to give my real services to my country. . . . You are not MY friends...
This Thing Called Love. The author, Edwin Burke, believes that love "is the monkey wrench which life has thrown into the machinery of marriage." Perhaps, in the beginning, he wanted to deal with the thing seriously. But, with his gate in mind, he shambles into farce, ends with a drunken and melodramatic pistol shot...
...books, fearful lest she retard the progress of Shep, returned to the road, stayed several years, defied Shep's frantic efforts to find her. The Tideboy estate was sold to a Britisher, given to protracted orgies, and his color less, passionate wife. The Britisher fled during a drunken spell, joined the circus in which Phoebe was featured. One guessed at the ending. In his better moments (The Chicken-Wagon Family) Author Benefield has been compared with Barrie, Morley, Donn Byrne...
Romance is braided into the plot, not too skillfully. The better moments are those in which reporters are talking about their jobs and their women, or pictured in their drinking or drunken moments. Of the reporters, Hugh O'Connell, who carried the green and flabby reporter's bible across the stage in The Racket does the best drinking while John Cromwell hands in a properly languid sketch of the cheerless, sardonic Wick Snell, who knows his business well enough to have an even more thorough detestation of the activities it reports. There was observed also in the play...