Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play relates the difficulties of a rich loafer named Perry Morrison who gets drunk and runs off with his friend's fiancée, also drunk. Thereafter the hero is dogged until the final curtain by newspaper reporters, the girl's large father from the Texas badlands and alcoholic amnesia. Included in the proceedings is an inebriated Justice of the Peace (Hugh Cameron) whose lampoon of a toper is as amusing as Robert Middlemass' broad portrayal of the sturdy Western parent. At one point, when Mr. Middlemass has particularly good cause to suspect his daughter of impure...
...North's adopted daughter. His wife is loved by the private secretary who wants her to elope with him. Mr. North's sister's stepson, a vapid character, does not know whom he loves. Mr. North loves nobody. The sister's stepson is caught drunk, having chastely spent the night in Mrs. North's bedroom. The adopted daughter learns that she is really Mr. North's illegitimate daughter. In the end the two young folk are mated, the private secretary goes off to Spain without his employer's wife...
...went to [U. S. Charge d'Affaires] O'Shaughnessy and together we bluffed our way into Chapultepec Castle. We went to the second floor and there was old Huerta drunk in bed. I became so intimate that I sat on the edge of the bed and emerged with an order to inspect all the garrisons of the capital. After looking over the 23 garrisons . . . I decided that I had better head for Vera Cruz and the fleet, because, if they learned I was an American Marine officer I would have been shot...
...Detroit, Russell Rodgers, moving man, was hailed into court by his wife, who charged that he frequently got drunk and beat her. The Court asked: "When do you get the whiskey?" Russell Rodgers replied: "Every day I work. When people move, they take stuff out of the cellar. They get most kind hearted and insist that you have a drink. You do it as a matter of courtesy...
...Chicago, Henry Magis was arrested for barking like a dog, thereby disturbing the peace. * He explained: "I was barking and howling to frighten away my daughter's boyfriends." But Mrs. Magis said: "Whenever Henry Magis gets drunk he thinks he's a dog. Anyway...