Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others. For centuries "the brethren in their sorrows overseas" have stood, glass in hand, in barren mess rooms looking at a homely portrait on the wall. One amongst them has said in a quiet hushed tone, "Gentlemen, the Queen", and, with a clicking of heels, the toast has been drunk. After this the little glass shanks of the goblets are flicked apart and they are hurled into the fireplace. This is a very expensive tradition, but a most pleasant and necessary one. And then there is the custom of searching the cellar for Guy Fawkes' men at the opening...
...steep camera angles, no fog-shrouded skylines, no philosophical implications. And yet by means of a shifting background of figures, director Borzage has surrounded his isolated principals, absorbed in their own affairs, with the reality of city life. Up and down the tenement stairs pass these people -- a drunk, piloting himself upward with splendid balance, and a street-walker hurrying to receive a caller, while below a gray-faced little woman phones to her sister of the death of their mother. The focus of interest is clearly upon these characters as human beings and not as the protagonists in some...
indignation gripped the Texas lawmakers. Up rose Representative T. H. McGregor of Austin, an orator of the wild old school, to defend the honor of his House. He called Huey Long "drunk with ignorance and power . . . arrogantly braying from Louisiana. . . . This is the first time in history that ignorance, impudence and insolence combined have crossed the State line and the people of Texas been insulted by political ambition and demagoguery. . . . Have we reached the point in Texas when the Governor of Louisiana can indict the Texas Legislature . . . and let the Governor of Louisiana get away with...
...like George Arliss slightly out of focus. In this picture, he wears a derby hat which is less becoming. Good shots: Butterworth voicing his absurd hunger for "a nice bowl of tapioca"; then falling into a small, shallow tank from a 110 ft. tower ; the proprietor going to bed drunk...
...Prohibition lecturer. She enthralled bigger & bigger crowds, telling about the degeneration of her father. Not to be outdone. Kip got a job as Prohibition agent, visited many a Manhattan speakeasy to collect evidence. At first sipping liquor made him sick, then he got used to it. Once he got drunk and liked it very much. Maggie May was horrified and made him get a different job. Kip always accepted bribes, then arrested the briber, turned in the money to the office. He was also very successful at betraying dishonest colleagues. One of his bosses once told...