Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps Mother Advocate has bent too long over the great alembic in which a new President is being distilled. Drunk with the fumes of politics, she has taken strange men into her house, who are not of her country (two contributors are not undergraduates). They have enslaved her own children, and torn her from the shrine of Polyhymnia, and made her bow down and worship before the heathen image of the Happy Warrior...
...President Hoover shook hands with his fellow Republicans, was photographed with them. ¶While President Hoover was laying the cornerstone for' the new Post Office Department building on Pennsylvania Avenue, one Edward Wells, war veteran, yelled "hurrah for Roosevelt!CPolice clapped Veteran Wells in jail, said he was drunk...
...Widow Khurshaid fell in love with a Moslem boy who quarreled with her, cut off her nose. In court Widow Khurshaid said she had cut off her own nose. Afterward she gave the boy about 4,000 rupees, offered to marry him. When he refused her, she got him drunk, tied him to his cot, cut off his nose. In court, she pleaded guilty, was sentenced to four years' hard labor...
...people like him, and among those who do are most of the nation's electric-lit names. He works hard and circulates fast, so that readers of The Family Circle are let in on what Lupe Velez said to Johnny Weissmuller when she wanted him to hit a drunk at the next table; what Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Crawford told about their trip to Europe; how George Olsen travelled all the way to Cincinnati because he thought he could beat Ben Bernie at golf. The Family Circle also brightens the lives of its consumers with a department...
...play, Publisher Oppenheimer wondered what would happen if a person whose life is devoted to being brilliant were thrown into a houseful of Boston socialites. His answer is highly amusing to almost everyone but the socialites. Mary Hilliard (Ruth Gordon) is bizarre, witty, peripatetic, alcoholic. When they get drunk she and her friend Stanley Dale (Charles D. Brown) go travelling. Once they went to Siam. This time they go to Nassau, where Mary Hilliard's one-time husband, Philip Graves (Donald Macdonald), is trying to persuade fresh, serious Claire Windrew (Sally Bates) to break her engagement and marry...