Word: jagging
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...Kansas City last week, police treated 15 motorists to a free jag. The drivers took two-ounce shots of whiskey every half-hour, meanwhile tried to sort playing cards, drive and back police cars in narrow painted lanes. Purpose: to determine at what stage of drunkenness a driver is at his worst...
...retail trade was up all over the U. S., the in crease was greater in the South (12-20%) than anywhere else. In some places, the South had almost more prosperity than it could stand. But was it building up a permanent industry? Or was it a retail trade jag, with only a hangover to look forward...
Despite the fact that Jawn rhymes with corn and that Mr. William Gillette is not the greatest pen-pusher of the last age, "Too Much Johnson" is liable to start you on a laughing jag. Just get in the spirit of the thing. It's blessed with a villain who commands his plantation slaves by shooting a gun over their heads, a blushing damsel, a Frenchman with mustachios and a hero who extricates himself from spots tighter than his 1890 pants. The farce is flavored with one ridiculous situation after another, though it must be admitted that...
...solvent is C52 that its fumes, inhaled, destroy the fatty sheaths of nerves, soften the fat matter of the brain. For some people, even a whiff is enough to produce a difficulty in walking. First symptom of poisoning, said Drs. Trumper & Gordy, is a kind of drunkenness, a "C52 jag." Then follow "a rich variety of neurologic disorders" including vertigo, vomiting, loss of muscle control, jumping and twitching, "spider webs" before the eyes. Victims are usually sleepy and tired, but in bed they are tortured by terrifying nightmares, wakened by violent muscular spasms. And finally, "there cannot be any doubt...
...like this, but flaws are to pick. Perhaps Miss Skinner draws too heavily on one of the fullest bags of tricks in the business; her white hands are at times just a touch too dramatic. But from Donald Oenslager's faithful Victorian drawing room set to Prossy's champagne jag, this production is all of a piece. It is worth going to see, for Pygmalion is not Mr. Shaw's only triumph...