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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sole clue to the affair was a drunk who yesterday afternoon entertained residents of Leverett and Lowell Houses whose windows face on Plympton Street with a lengthy, dissertation on "Sex and The Monetary Instinct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1500 Students Rush to Birth-Control Lecture Only to Find It a Big Hoax | 4/16/1937 | See Source »

...Chorus Girl (Warner Brothers) starts with a sequence in which a Paris doctor diagnoses the alarming coma of young ex-King Alfred (Fernand Gravet). "Never in my entire life," he tells the ex-King's ex-Chancellor (Edward Everett Horton), "have I ever seen anyone so completely drunk." Between this sequence and the picture's last, exhibiting an ocean liner at Niagara Falls, The King and the Chorus Girl whirls through a series of urbanely insane and expertly executed narrative gyrations which make it probably the most unique and certainly the most enjoyable light comedy of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...party anyway, shot Mr. Love dead. Mrs. Love's arrest, indictment and trial turned out to be the midwinter sensation of Southern California. She was amply photographed kissing her late husband in his coffin, and during the trial one of the women jurors was removed for habitually getting drunk on liquor which she hid in the women's toilet. Fortnight ago, the other jurors found Helen Wills Love guilty of murder in the second degree. Cried the prisoner: "That's not fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Profound Sulks | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...Dicksteon, Tenn., explaining that he felt "a good drunk coming on," a town tippler deposited $7.50 with Judge Robert S. Clement as advance payment of his prospective fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...Atlanta, "Ajax," a quarter-ton stone lion marking an apartment driveway entrance, mysteriously disappeared, three nights later reappeared at its post with its nose daubed red, a sign hung around its neck: "Boy! What a party! And was I drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

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