Word: drunks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...silly girl, a typical college "teaser," sneaks away from her Southern co-ed institution for a party with a would-be sophisticated boyfriend. He gets drunk, runs out of liquor, insists on going to a lonely country bootlegger's he knows about. Almost there, he wrecks his car and the two find themselves stranded at dusk at the bootlegger's, among five hard men, one hard woman. The boy gets drunk again, the girl is terrified but cannot get away. This typical cinema situation does not turn out like a cinema. For one horror-filled night the girl escapes...
...shooting occurred at a questionable distance offshore, because Prime Minister Bennett of Canada was just about to visit President Hoover in Washington (see p. 11), the official U. S. investigation was prompt and thorough. Assertions by some members of the Josephine K.'s crew that Mate Schmidt was drunk were disproved to the satisfaction of the Coast Guard board. As in the still unsettled case of the I'm Alone (TIME, April 1, 1929), the main question was: Did the shelling and seizure occur within the jurisdiction...
...running gag"* much admired by Hollywood experts is built up in a millionaire who, when drunk, is Chaplin's dearest friend; when sober, has him thrown out of the house. A new gag: Chaplin trying to light his cigar but succeeding only in lighting the cigar which another character is waving airily before his face...
...distribution of liquor, which would be stored in its bonded warehouses. If a State chose to sell liquor, it would create a local corporation as a subsidiary of the national corporation. Retail sale would occur through branches of the State corporation to citizens holding permit books. Nothing could be drunk on the premises. Prices uniform everywhere would be fixed by the national corporation scaling upward in proportion to the alcoholic content of the beverage. Drunkenness or misbehavior would be grounds for revoking a citizen's permit book. Purchases would not be solicited; liquor would not be advertised...
...Stahlberg villa told of a mysterious car that had lurked about the neighborhood for several days before the Stahlbergs' abduction, thought that it was a bootlegger making his deliveries. The kidnappers themselves swore that they had received orders from General Wallenius and Colonel Kuussaari, that both were drunk at the time, so drunk that the morning after they gave the order for the abduction they had forgotten all about it, which was the reason the kidnapping failed for lack of co-operation and gasoline...