Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although he claimed he hadn't had "anything to drink," barrel-shaped Comic Lou Costello apparently bowed to circumstantial evidence after he was hauled into the Van Nuys, Calif, jail on a drunken driving rap. The cops' version of Costello's night flight: Lou drove out of his driveway, bounced off both his gateposts, headed off without headlights on the wrong side of the street, finally heard the prowl car's siren and stopped halfway on the sidewalk. After his lawyer pleaded guilty for him and paid a $150 fine, Comic Costello was led back...
Basuto policemen to occupy the Kgotla ground, the tribesmen reacted. Screeching and bellowing, 2,000 of them bombarded the cops with stones. When Batho himself arrived with police reinforcements, a drunken virgin bopped him on the head with a sharp-pointed stone. Sixty cops were injured, three battered to death...
...Antonio's park (see second color page) was a community project, begun in the '30s when the little San Antonio River, choked with rubbish, had become an eyesore. (Indians called the weaving, U-turning river "drunken-old-man-going-home-at-night.") Distressed citizens raised funds for a beautification program, got WPA help, dredged and cleaned the river, built arched bridges, cobblestone terraces and walks, planted trees, grass and flowers along the "big bend" section. Today the river park is the city's pride...
...plot. The story of fickle Judy, the apothecary's daughter, is nothing more than a loosely-tied string of cliches. Judy refuses to date a racketeer, name of Joe. Larry, Judy's childhood sweetheart, comes home and Judy falls in love with him again. Joe is killed in a drunken brawl and Larry is suspected. But it all works out okay, because the real murderer is found with a bloody hanky in his pocket. The unimaginative libretto by the composer's wife doesn't help...
...Then Annabel's best friend, Claire, betrays everybody by doing something natural, goes to bed with Addinsell. Arthur's wife, furious at the loss of a lover she never took, joins Annabel in a coterie of insulted virtue against poor Claire. All ends club-bily in a drunken brawl...