Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Operator Farquhar J. Southbound at Portage and Main at 1:10. Two men (drunk) sitting about centre of car felt sick, and before getting off vomited on floor near window. Liquid trickled through panel on floor causing a short circuit. . . . Spark from short circuit caused the alcohol to explode and the flame shot upwards and singed the eyebrows of Mr. W. Alsip, 216 Stafford. . . . Mr. Alsip said he was all right...
...with the beret, still more surprised when the red-faced man then ordered a bottle of Coca-Cola for himself and walked out with it without speaking a single word to the elderly man. The clerk might have forgotten the incident if the man with the beret had not drunk his gratuitous beer alone and walked away from the bar never again to be seen alive...
Protesting the charge of the National Indian Association that Nevada's Piute Indians had held a "terrible orgy'' at Yerington, drunk "all the liquor they could get," followed it with the anti-freeze from their cars, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt resigned as honorary vice president...
While the consuls were busy cabling home for instructions, Commissioner McNutt sent another tornado of excitement blowing through the bars at the Army & Navy and Elks Clubs (Manila's best) by transmitting a second message to the consulates. At future consular dinners let the first toast be drunk to the head of the host's State. Let the second salute Franklin D. Roosevelt, the third his emissary in the Philippines, Paul V. McNutt. The fourth salute should honor President Quezon. The irregular practice of toasting Senor Quezon before Mr. McNutt would have to stop...
...aspiring architectural student, applies to B. J. Nolan (Charles Winninger) for a job with his projected model suburb. She finds Nolan is bankrupt, his heartless son Kenneth (Joel McCrea). possessor of a million dollars, having refused to help him. Kenneth, a cautious man when sober, will buy anything when drunk, and the climax of Woman Chases Man is the way in which Miss Travis gets Kenneth's signature to the contract for Nolan Heights. Her efforts are complicated by the connivings of Nina Tennyson (Leona Maricle) whom Kenneth has brought home with him from European travels and who designs...