Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco's Shamrock Club, Dancer Betty Blossom swirled onto the floor, swinging a pair of benzine torches. A drunk rose, foolishly pawed at Dancer Blossom. Up went her arm, up in flames went the flimsy papier-mache ceiling. When firemen fought their way in to smother the blaze, they found a Chinese cook, three orchestramen hidden in the icebox. Dead from flames and trampling were the hatcheck girl, a woman patron, two men. Torch-Dancer Blossom was arrested for violating San Francisco's fire laws...
...sanitarium where he was cured of alcoholism. Last week, hearing that Author Seabrook had returned to the sanitarium, a newshawk telephoned his Rhinebeck, N. Y. farm, got an explosive denial. Bawled Author Seabrook: "I'm getting sick of that rumor! Every time anyone sees a tough drunk they say it's me, and I'm sore...
...obviously a street musician. He is at home, seated at his table. You can see he has been enjoying himself - there are heads and tails of her rings on a plate, a bottle which has contained stout, and a glass which betrays the fact that he has drunk the stout. There is also a half-empty packet of cigarets. The happy gentleman is all alone and he is leaning back in his chair playing his cornet. What is he playing? Well, I've called the picture I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls." The name of the piece...
...will of their wives, and is ridiculed when she attempts landscape architecture a la Provence. She befriends a fakir of an artist, who misconstrues her attentions as love, but so embroils matters for herself that she leaves town even after the young Eric has been killed on a drunk. To satisfy Adelaide Tarr Gimmitch and other American ladies, she returns to her husband when she has learned that "Main Streets exist everywhere...
...first distinguished himself from his 434 colleagues on the tail end of last New Year's Eve. Entering a Washington apartment house, he shouldered the Negro switchboard operator aside, merrily plugged in every telephone in the building. Four husky policemen testified in court that Representative Zioncheck was so drunk that they had had to support him when they removed him from the building. Convicted of drunken & disorderly conduct, he took a copy of the court proceedings to the House, asked unanimous consent to have them printed in the Congressional Record. "I think," declared the indignant gentleman from Washington...