Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pioneers. In Long Beach, Calif., Johnny Kunakoff was persuaded to beach his seagoing jeep and surrender to two motorcycle cops, who made possibly the first arrest for drunken amphibious driving...
...Services Committee had agreed on a bill to coordinate and unify the direction of the armed forces. The bill carefully stipulated that the services were not to be merged. ¶ Chuckled over North Carolina's William Umstead, who suggested an old English test for D.C. drivers charged with drunken driving: "Not drunk is he who from the floor...
Hollywood stayed right in its groove. Rita Hay worth took steps to have her two-year-old daughter (by Orson Welles) made a corporation director in mother's new producing firm. Actor Wallace Ford beat a drunken driving rap by explaining that he drove the way he did because his whiskers kept blowing in his face. Ex-Ziegfeld Beauty Boots Mallory, arrested for drunken driving, was freed to await trial. Actor Lionel Stander & wife filed petitions in bankruptcy, listing assets of $3,150, liabilities of $33,772.77. Actor Lawrence (Dillinger) Tierney, who had been spending his weekends in jail...
Frank & Bitter. There are only five actors in O'Neill's new play, and three of them carry the whole of it. The three: James Dunn as a drunken bachelor landlord; Mary Welch as a big Connecticut hill girl; J. M. Kerrigan as her conniving, Irish tenant farmer father. The play tells of Dunn's blind quest for redemption from a hell of liquor and women; of Miss Welch's efforts to make him happy and to alleviate her own hell as an outsized woman; of her father's willingness to make something...
...revue, The Fairy Queen. In 1692 Composer Henry Purcell and an anonymous playwright dashed off a travesty on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Its original seven hours now whittled down to three, The Fairy Queen was a lavish, confusing show full of dancers, coloratura arias, drunken comics and a Chinese grand finale. To put it on, Covent Garden had to call in its Sadler's Wells Co. and eight professional actors...