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...Lahr & Mercedes." In the years after World War I-in which he served as a Navy enlisted man-all this paid off. He invented a noisy, red-nosed cop ("Go ahead and call the captain-he's drunker than I am") and hit big-time vaudeville in one jump. His first wife, a beautiful ex-burlesque soubrette named Mercedes Delpino, was his straight woman. LAHR AND MERCEDES, read big newspaper ads, A RIOT OF MIRTH AND IRRESISTIBLE COMEDY. He bought a Packard car and tailored suits, and dreamed of Broadway. "Bert," said the Broadway wise guys...
...women were prettier and the drunks were drunker, but it all seemed very human. People who drove too fast had accidents, people who drank too much got sick, and half the people who made bets lost them...
...Whitehurst was in charge of putting the Palm Beach Post-Times to bed. Instead of merely editing the last-minute news, he felt like making some of his own. He banged out a 650-word article and slapped it on Page One. Sample: "Half-drunk women heard their drunker men tell why this bloody mess, so far, far away would be over before another New Year. . . . They had been in combat-with their draft boards. . . . They had their stripes-deferment stripes. . . . They wondered when all the killing would be over and got drunk doing...
...basis is a problem for administrative officials and undergraduates alike to worry about. Direct prohibition would prove no more effective than it did as a national law. Those students who would benefit most by the curtailment of drinking would only consider such a move a direct challenge to get "drunker than ever...
...brother, bothered about stealing money to play the market, takes ship for South America. His father commits suicide because he learns that his wife is misbehaving. Mean Mrs. Nordholm calls up her lover but he is too distressed by losses to aid in her crisis. Uncle Nordholm gets drunker than usual and insults a prelate. To top it all, the whole affair reminds Grandfather Nordholm (Paul Muni) of the day his wife went crazy so he dies also, of a heart attack...