Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specific charges which I now make are: First that certain members of this House to my knowledge have been seen in the House drunk. Second that certain members have received money from a money lenders' association in consideration for services rendered . . . that on April 4, 5, 12 and 23 the Daily Mail openly charged members of this House with using their position as members of this House and of using facsimiles of House stationery for writings that were described as 'puff letters' in return for which they were paid sums of money...
...Provo, Utah (hometown of Senator Reed Smoot), Mr. & Mrs. Francis M. Barney celebrated their golden wedding, felicitated each other on their 14 married children. Mr. Barney further signalized the occasion by getting drunk, choking and threatening to kill Mrs. Barney. She sued for divorce...
...They are drunk their mouths are hard they say qué cosa...
QUEER PEOPLE-Carroll & Garrett Graham-Vanguard ($2). Theodore Anthony White is a picaresque rascal, a newspaperman. He lands in Los Angeles about as broke as usual, gets a job on a morning paper, is taken drunk, loses his job, wakes up next morning entangled in Hollywood. Successively, never too successfully, he is scenario writer, press agent, blackmailer, entertainer in a bawdy house. To a friend who asks him if he likes the last job better than being in a studio, Hero White replies: "Well, you work with a better class of people...
...cinema custom, the story seemed inexpert. It told of two British brothers flying against Germany. At the climax the brave brother shot the timid brother to keep him from telling British army secrets to the Germans. There was also a love story which ended when the girl got drunk and plunged into the arms of another man, also drunk. Ben Lyon, as the timid brother, acted best. Discounting its less efficient elements the picture still stands as an astounding achievement. The air sequences will draw gasps from the most stolid patron. In the early reels a duel (German) is most...