Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oregon refused to listen to William E. ("Pussyfoot"; Johnson who stomped out of the State declaring his Dry campaign had been a failure and that the U. S. was "in for a five-year drunk." The Oregon vote...
...what sort of person he is by the way he picks up a dish of cold breakfast cereal, carries it out into the yard, dumps it contemptuously into the henyard. Louise falls in love with Guy at a village dance while Simon the hired man (Stuart Erwin) is getting drunk on corn whiskey. For a genre incident-of the kind which have made Stong contributions unique in the current cinema-the best shot in The Stranger's Return is probably the harvesting dinner, with extra leaves in the Storr table, Grandpa Storr grunting at the head of the board...
...hands of Arthur Kober and Nunnally Johnson, this odd narrative serves for a surprisingly tender and humorous little comedy, aided greatly by the skill of Charles Ruggles. He manages to be funny even in the inevitable scene in which he gets drunk at a banquet, eats a doily with his ice-cream, annoys the other guests with a handful of animal crackers, staggers off to bed in the wrong room...
...after an inspection of the Fair's night life: "After midnight about three-quarters of the Midway concessions had closed voluntarily. The chief objection to letting the others remain open indefinitely was the problem created by unescorted women who stay on the grounds late at night, too drunk to take proper care of themselves. We've had a terrible time keeping them off the trucks that are admitted to the grounds, to bring in supplies and collect refuse, after midnight. We never know when one of them will take a notion to fall in the lagoon...
...Hagerstown, Md. to Magistrate Richard Sweeney police brought George Chenoweth, whom they had arrested for driving while drunk. Magistrate Sweeney pondered, announced this syllogistic decision: 1) no criminal defendant may be forced to testify against himself; 2) George Chenoweth is so obviously drunk that simply by keeping him in the room the court is forcing him to testify against himself; 3) therefore, George Chenoweth must be discharged...