Word: drunkard
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Matron of Morsels will entertain as black-face comedienne, in her inimitable interpretations of 'mammy' songs. By popular request the Senior Tutor will cast aside academic dignity as a concession to the holiday season, and sing that famous and lachrymose lyric of the frigid Forties, entitled 'Father's a Drunkard and Mother's Dead, or Poor Little Bessie's Plea for Bread...
...came to be there or where they are going. Slowly the realization comes to them that they have died, that their destination is eternity. It is an unusual picture because it contains none of the elements commonly accepted as having picture appeal. A dowager, a charwoman, a financier, a drunkard and a pair of unhappy lovers are capably presented by a cast that includes Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Helen Chandler, Leslie Howard. When the interest weakens it is not the fault of the picturemakers but of the writing. Playwright Sutton Vane was not completely successful in creating the terror and grandeur...
Main proviso: The employer of an habitual drunkard shall pay half his wages to his wife or family...
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...
Facts. His father was a drunkard, his mother a consumptive. But he was a rugged babe when born near Mill Springs, Mo., in 1868. Delirium tremens and Death. as they must to all such drinkers, soon came to his father; his mother sent him away to relatives. When soon after, she died also, the boy overheard the reason, heard that he too was probably marked as a victim. He determined to cheat untimely death by making himself strong. In St. Louis, in the midst of struggles to earn his living, he joined a gymnasium. Soon his muscles began to bulge...