Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dunster House there was the case of the upperclassman who periodically got drunk and exploded his shotguns all over the court. A pedestrian on Massachusetts Avenue one day felt his new felt hat lifted from his head. A bullet from some unknown source had passed clear through it, In indignation he demanded that somebody, anybody...
...lose my sense of humor, the whole thing will end in a mess." The doctor couldn't work without her and became so snappish Ina decided he loved Steve, started for Reno. When, having changed her mind at the airport, she came back and found him drunk in Steve's apartment, Ina throws completely over all the opportunities which actresses have heretofore reaped from this situation. Instead of having a cat fight, the two girls somberly and methodically join forces to get the doctor sober enough to operate...
...Manhattan, John Koppelmeyer, 72, insisted to a magistrate that he loved his wife despite the fact that he had thrown a bottle at her head when he arrived home drunk. Inquired the magistrate, "How can you balance love with throwing a bottle...
Playing at Washington's Capitol Theater, famed good-looking Mimic Sheila Barrett included in her repertoire the well-known caricature of a virtuous Southern girl starting out for a big night in Manhattan, winding up drunk in a night club. After Miss Barrett had played the bit for five days, a lady member of the Georgian Society protested that the impersonation was "not a true picture of Southern women." Miss Barrett was promptly ordered to remove the bit from her act. She agreed: "I'm here to entertain people, not embarrass them...
...much help, passed the buck to a soothsayer. This worthy declared that within three days a mendicant would appear at the city gates who would make all clear. In due time the mendicant appeared, turned out to be a professional expresser of public apologies and an old drunk into the bargain. Luckily for himself he had with him his granddaughter, Hwa-che, who knew all about solving crimes from reading English detective stories. Hwa-che's first few casts did credit to her training but instead of solving the mystery got herself and several other people into terrible trouble...