Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hero of this picture when it starts. Presently, Joe Radek (Paul Muni) learns that he has been mistaken. A Pennsylvania coal miner with nothing on his mind except his girl Anna (Karen Morley), he is so dismayed when she runs off with a company policeman that he gets blind drunk and staggers into a meeting of his union. There a hired agitator, stoolpigeon for a racketeering labor organization whose scheme is to start the strikes that it gets paid to settle, is telling the miners that the heads of their union are double-crossing them. All this means...
June, 1895. Loessy winds puffed faintly from the gulf, and doxies paltered in their bordels. All Nebraska simmered in the heat. Lincoln, the new state capital, named for Mr. Lincoln out of spite by an unruly clique of power-drunk prairie politicians, sulked in the hotness--oppressed by the clastic ulor of its buildings...
...reporter falls desperately in love with Laverne, does everything he can to get in the trio's good graces. He hands over his apartment to them, lends them money, tries to get his editor interested in them. In return they cold-shoulder him, rob him when he is drunk. Because Shumann's plane is obsolete, the only way he can place in the money is by cutting risky corners at the pylons. By tricky work, the reporter gets him a dangerously overpowered plane for the third day's race, so that Shumann can win a really valuable...
...According to Columnist 0. 0. Mclntyre, a drunk once refused to believe that the person with whom he was scuffling was Fisticuffer McCoy. Knocked to the floor, he looked up, said, "It's the real McCoy." Hence, the phrase...
...were so loyal, so kind in telling me before others did--no deceit. And yet it was so tenderly conveyed. Then how can I be other than honest. Must I get conventionally drunk and hypocritically paint the town? My friends tell me I'm a fool. Where's your pride, they say. It's lost in abject adoration that will last forever...