Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British church films are the work of the society. A U. S. commercial film, Magnificent Obsession, in which Robert Taylor as a drunken playboy becomes devoted to a girl he has caused to be run over and blinded, has also made the rounds. To show all the public what church movies were like, the London Daily Express promptly pictured the scene. In Liverpool Actor Taylor proved too sugary a pill. There the picture was shown in two parts, filling the church for the first, practically emptying it for the second...
...reverberations of the long-repealed Volstead Act rumbled noisily across the front pages of yesterday's Boston papers and singled out Radcliffe College for attack. The vituperative pen of a Greater Boston preacher managed to magnify the serving of sherry at a meeting of the Radcliffe Auxiliary into a drunken carousal; but investigation shows two important facts were overlooked in making these accusations, facts which dim the lurid spotlight thrown on an innocent gathering...
...were brought from Meridian. Miss, and they immediately picked up the trail which led to the vestibule of the high school, from there to a Negro woman's house and finally to another Negro house where a crap game was in progress. The dogs made straight for a drunken Negro who was dozing in a corner...
...fourth, celestial glory through martydom. Thomas resists the first three, but his reaction to the fourth is not so clear, nor the application of the above solution so easy, for it is debatable whether he merely submits to death or seeks it, at the hands of the drunken knights sent by the King...
...apprenticed to a dry-goods merchant, later to a mapmaker. Finding his "worldly spirit" in collision with the piety of his father, he struck out on his own, worked as a farmhand, then started west with a companion, bumming rides on primitive trains, stealing poultry, taking up with a drunken canal boatman...