Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who would like to have permanently on hand Franchot Tone's recitation of England, My England; or John Barrymore's Hamlet soliloquy; or Joe E. Brown's story about the cat and the drunken mouse, Specialty Record Co. offers these and other movie star recordings...
...quite as much as shopkeepers, continued "business as usual" under the Blitz. A bomb heavily damaged one of the London police courts last week, but as soon as chunks of debris had been shoveled out of the main courtroom, the magistrate resumed trial of usual petty police-court cases - drunkenness, pocket-picking, etc. A 74-year-old widow, Mrs. Amelia Graham, was hauled into Hendon Police Court on a drunken-driving charge. She proved that her physician was having her take a tablespoonful of whiskey every two hours to steady her nerves against the Blitz, notwithstanding was fined...
...little one who looks after him (John Qualen); a dipsomaniacal, upper-class Englishman (Ian Hunter) trying to forget his shoddy past-also on a grim, gruff captain (Wilfrid Lawson). There is no sustained plot to occupy the men, only sporadic incidents such as a battering storm at sea, a drunken rumpus in a West Indian port with a bevy of native girls, a tingling passage through the war zone, a long-drawn debauch in London's waterfront pubs and brothels. For those whose interest in the sea is less intense than John Ford's, the endless incidents aboard...
...back-platform appearances across New Mexico the candidate began to learn to use the microphone. He talked of the New Deal's "drunken orgy of spending"; promised "honest jobs for honest work in honest industry"; and always, everywhere, blasted the Chicago "draft," declaring again & again "I am not an indispensable...
...century ago Bellevue was a filthy, hellish pesthouse for typhus and yellow fever; 50 years ago a dumping ground for drunken bums, bastards, lunatics, penniless incurables. Fear of the place is still widespread among New York City's ignorant poor, especially the foreign-born...