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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hughes) finds a small black book in his extra pants. Heckled by her suspicion that the female names therein are not the names of horses-and his brother-in-law's belief that they are horses and that he has made a fortune betting on them-Oiwin gets drunk. In the bar of the Lavillere Hotel he gives a casual race-tip to three starving horse-players-Charlie (Allen Jenkins), Patsy (Sam Levene) and Frankie (Teddy Hart). He is being sick offstage during those moments when the selections in his small black book, heavily backed by his new friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Garden of Allah | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...brilliant military organizer, a friend of learning and perhaps the best educated man of his time. With Aristotle he discussed the philosopher's schemes for the organization of real knowledge, with Isocrates he planned a great union of Greek states to dominate the Eastern world. Occasionally he got drunk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 11/20/1936 | See Source »

Philip occasionally got drunk. Plutarch tells us of a scene at Philip's second-marriage feast when Attalus, the father of the bride, betrayed the general hostility to Olympias and Epirus by saying "he hoped there would be a child by the marriage to give them a truly Macedonian heir." Whereupon young Alexander rose and threw his cup of wine at Attalus . . . "What then am I?" Philip stood up and drew his sword, but stumbled and fell. And fiery Alexander...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 11/20/1936 | See Source »

...California crashes occur at night, he explained that it would take time to test his signal's efficiency. Typical driver reaction was that of Fire Chief Ralph Scott. Encountering the wriggle for the first time, he snorted to his wife: "You know, I'm not drunk, but that line's moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Wriggle Roads | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Godfrey" is the apogee of madness, and it succeeds for one very good reason; Carole Lombard. As you sit there helplessly in your seat, dissolved in hilarity, you are likely to begin attributing your shameful condition to William Powell or to the drunk who wrote the lines. But it's no good passing the buck. The latter two factors contribute considerable shares, to be sure, but Carole's the crux of the excruciation. You may have seen her often before (she's been in pictures more years than she likes to count), and never liked...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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