Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomasville, Ga., sightseers were unable to view the "Famous-White-faced-Gorilla, the-most-marvelous-creature-ever- beheld-by-man," because the owner of the gorilla, J. D. Owens, and the gorilla were too drunk to stand...
Murfree Rinnard was a trapper who hated houses, loved the woods; he knew the forests of Tennessee, "Kaintuck," North Carolina like the back of his hand. When he had a load of furs he came to town to get drunk, get a woman, then get away. In Hill Town, N. C. he saw a girl he wanted. She fell in love with him, he slipped off before it was too late. But he was never able to forget her. Years later he saw her in the West: when the Chickasaws rose against the white settlers, Murfree got through...
...thousand years old and that he can be funny as well as sentimental. Mammy is as silly as most other Jolson pictures. Irving Berlin, who wrote the tunes, wrote the story too-a backstage triangle with a "mother angle" thrown in to key up the sentiment. Jolson does a drunk scene and sings many times. The tunes are better than some of Berlin's, but not so good as the old favorites Jolson sings again: "Who Paid the Rent for Mrs. Rip Van Winkle?" "The Albany Night Boat," and an even older one, shuffled to by thousands of dancing...
Heroine Erne Gallows is an orphaned Scotch girl, strong, passionate, beautiful. From her sailor father she inherits a reckless temper, an honest eye. The villagers mistrust her independence; they get drunk at her wedding but think her husband a queer, weak sort of man for her to pick. They are enlightened and glad when she is pregnant before her time. Her lover comes to the fair; there is a brawl, her husband is killed. Effie marries the schoolteacher, who has always loved her; a few months later her child is born, but it is weakly, and soon dies. Then...
...Pittsburgh, police found Henry Mulholland drunk and singing in the cab of a derailed trolley car which he had stolen, in which he had been driving himself about the city...