Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sound sleep to watch him operating on little girls, shuddering with sadistic thrills at public executions, or slavering over the wax image of Mme Orlac which he keeps in his apartment. One of the best scenes in the picture is the maniacal matter-of-factness of Lorre's drunken housekeeper who, finding Mme Orlac at the front door, takes for granted that she is the wax image come to life, shoos her upstairs to the chamber where she is trapped by Lorre and, subsequently, rescued by the police and her vengeful husband. Even the music that bursts forth...
...finds is a difficult task. The more a child's attention is called to his tic, the less likely the tic will disappear. Overactive children should be given quiet recreations. Dr. Kanner insists that every cause which disturbs the child emotionally should be removed?family quarreling, fear of a drunken father, a whining mother, oppressive brothers and sisters. Often peaceful, regular life in a boarding school or summer camp will cure such children...
Governor Talmadge has only one thing that might interest the Grays-the power to end the life imprisonment of Richard Gray Gallogly, whose mother Frances is a sister of the Brothers Inman and James Richard Jr.† In 1928, while a student at Oglethorpe, drunken Richard Gray Gallogly held up an Atlanta drugstore, killed the cashier, shot out the face of an Oglethorpe campus clock. The Grays never refer to their black sheep but no wise Atlantan thought for a minute last week that they would ever trade political peace for family whitewash...
Strong as an ox in a fight (he weighs over 200 lb.). Acosta got into many a drunken brawl. When he was fined $10 for public intoxication in 1933, his estranged wife paid that sum to save him from jail. In 1934 he was arrested again, given three months. For all his difficulties with the law, oldtime pilots still rated him top, considered him ''just a big, easygoing fellow with a genius for flying which cannot be used in these regulated days...
When a jilted member of the socially elect stands drunken outside the church in which his erstwhile sweetheart is being married to a wealthier rival and proceeds to vent his bitterness in witty remarks about the holy ceremony, it is only fitting that a poor shop-girl standing by should save him from the police. Equally natural is it that, after diverting his thoughts from the river's brink in an evening of alcoholic pleasantry, she should marry the fellow to complete his salvation. Like most plots, this one has not all the elements of originality, but in "The Girl...