Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aviatrix Sophie Mary Peirce-Evans Williams, onetime holder of the women's altitude record, divorced from Sir James Heath in 1930, was found drunk in a subway station by London police. Unable to furnish a $50 guaranty of six months' good behavior, she was sentenced to 28 days in jail...
Best character sketch is that of Shorty Harris, grouchy, restless, simple-minded prospector who tramped Death Valley for 50 years, found five rich mines, got almost nothing for them. When he found The Bullfrog in 1904 a saloon keeper kept him drunk for three weeks, got him to sell his claim for $1,000 and three barrels of whiskey. When he found The Harrisburg soon after he became a partner in the company formed to work it, taking stock which he did not know was assessable. Author Coolidge hired Shorty Harris to guide him across the Valley to Death Valley...
...with a slit in the top there instead. But students don't go around loaded with pennies, and they began to establish credit accounts by depositing dimes and drawing thereon day by day. And the graph of his profits and losses looked like a drunk trying to write "swimming...
...young blade, one Baron Schober, and Shubert, unable to finish his symphony for which she was the inspiration, pines away in heroic devotion. Comic honors go without a doubt to Mitzi's father, old man Krantz, who makes an art of slapstick comedy. His performance as a drunk and a hard-boiled father saves the dialogue time and again from sinking into monotonous sentimentalism...
...gives $5 to his son, $5 to his daughter, pays a bill and goes on a bat, winding up robbed by a street walker after knocking out a fellow drunk. His son wanders down Broadway; his daughter falls in love in Central Park. Author Calmer has broken up this Manhattan idyll with four long interludes that are made up of snapshots of city life: quarreling tenement dwellers, lovers lying on the roof in the heat, card players in a midtown hotel, a pair of middle-aged Lesbians quarreling, a sailor picking up a girl. Main trouble with When Night Descends...