Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without glamour." No real man would be a movie actor," she expanded. Of the numerous famous characters of the sports world she has interviewed, Max Baer is tops. But even the popular play-boy prize-fighter comes in for his share of Marsters' abuse as being "dizzy" and "punch-drunk...
Since that edging they took during the punch-drunk-prom weekend at New Haven the Elis have been going to town, and Georgetown and Penn State are among their more recent victims. Both of these schools have good clubs, and Penn State is right up in that Western league which numbers teams like Pitts among its members. Yale is no man's snap. That Senior triumvirate of Kelley, Beckwith and Miles is really going to town, and when they clash with Bill Gray, Red Lowman and company, another thrilling game is sure to result. It will be the climax...
...protest their light bills, farmers vainly beg for electric service, a parent explains to his little daughter that the Government would be inefficient if it tried to supply electricity. The little daughter, observing that the people trust the Government to run the post office, concludes: "The people are awfully drunk...
They rarely give barbiturates (like allonal) because those drugs rarely quiet a drunk and do depress his circulation. They never give morphine, because that drug increases pressure on the brain and brings on death. They reduce intracranial pressure by draining fluid through a puncture in the spine. Most men who die in delirium tremens die because their hearts give way. Drs. Piker & Cohn prevent that by loading the patient with digitalis. Digitalis, besides being a heart regulator, is a diuretic, something the raving drunkard requires. In delirium tremens the digestive system is out of whack. Drs. Piker & Cohn wash...
...bouffe robbers. The boy grinds a hurdy-gurdy drawn by a mule while his mother and grandfather sing. When the robbers hide a stocking full of gold in the hurdy-gurdy, the fun starts. Unable to get at the booty, the robbers get the elders drunk, drag the hurdy-gurdy away with the boy asleep on top. Boy and hurdy-gurdy, mule and dog then endure a series of escapades. They drift about a lake in a rowboat. They are jailed. They climb the Alps and get lost in the snow. They meet a jolly hermit. They foil the robbers...