Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dogs must be taught to like alcohol. Dr. Gettler. a deliberate, inquisitive investigator, taught a pack to get drunk in order to find a measure of intoxication in man. Some individuals burn up alcohol faster than others. The quick-burners can drink much more than the others before getting drunk. But every drunk's brain is wet with alcohol. Thus Dr. Gettler could tell that Ruth Snyder besotted her husband before she and Judd Gray crushed his skull with a sash weight (TIME. April 4, 1927, et seq.}. Driving from the crime she tried to enhearten Judd Gray...
...friend, Gather is cutting short a (rip to Manhattan, hoping and fearing to find proof of his suspicions on his unexpected arrival home. Everything turns out just as he thought it would; he finds that foreknowledge makes the fact no easier. As he took the precaution of coming home drunk, he acts the part of injured husband with more malice than dignity. (An interlude, a flashback, shows him as a small boy at Duxbury, where his family went in the summer, with his flirtatious mother and two uncles, his father and some sinister secret usually out of sight...
...Kalama, Wash., Ray Edwards got drunk, drove to the home of L. P. Brown, punched Brown, went to jail, tore up beds, wrecked the stove, ripped out electric fixtures, knocked out the marshal with a stove lid, set the jail afire...
...William E. Fields, Mack Sennett has a comedian who not only is a good actor, but is also funny. His lampooning of the old "mellowdrammer" is shown off to striking advantage by the "Souvenirs" which followed it. On the stage James E. Barton acts the drunk, sings, dances, and paniomimes while the audience adjourns, or wishes it could, to the smoking room. Continuing this, Beatrice Powell gives an impersonation of Schuossle Durante which is too much like him to be pleasant, but her idea of Mae West assisted by the Broadway Beauties is amusing especially when some of the chorines...
...Gardena, Calif., a Federal Prohibition agent drove past a house, saw a pig stagger out of a ditch, attack an automobile tire, saw another pig try to climb over a fence, decided the pigs were drunk, stopped, investigated, found a still, arrested Dominic Caprini...