Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curtis Dwight Wilbur, onetime (1024-29) Secretary of the Navy, walked into a drug store at Arbuckle, Calif., gave a clerk 10¢ for a stein of root beer which he had drunk in 1920 and had not paid...
...story on which so much cyclonic satire is hung concerns a smalltime vaudeville team of which the smartest member is Jean Dixon (the acidic wife in June Moon). The least gifted member is Hugh O'Connell, a ludicrous gentleman who had the part of a half-drunk reporter in The Racket, a completely drunk reporter in Gentlemen of the Press. The first indication of Mr. O'Connell's competence appears when Miss Dixon asks him what he is reading. "Variety" he replies. "Why don't you read something written in English...
...married in an early sequence to a bridegroom who is standing proxy for somebody else. Events lead naturally to a pursuit in pajamas through a magnificent suite in a continental hotel where every double bed contains Charles Ruggles, who is there by mistake. He does his famous drunk act, but the best shot is the one in which he imitates...
Dictator Ibanez's definition of an "habitual drunkard": one whom the duly constituted courts of Chile shall have convicted of being drunk five times in six months or eleven times within the space of one year...
...scenes at the front are very stagey, with naughty Belgian girls, soldiers staggering about drunk or wounded, noise. Scenes in the Brooklyn flat, however, are gently paced, quietly moving...