Word: drunkards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...works. Light musical entertainment was soon added and in 1843 the first play was produced. The gentry scorned the theatres of the time and it was not until 1844 that 'nice people' could be persuaded to attend. They were lured inside the doors by that moral production, 'The Drunkard, or, The Fallen Saved'. After that moral productions followed thick and fast, the most famous being 'Ten Nights in a Bar Room...
...like a drunkard's last half dollar...
...Boston, Drs. T. F. Hunter and S. G. Mudd experimented with carbon dioxide gas. Properly administered, they said, it would sober drunkards. Various mild tests seemed to uphold their theory. Last week, they executed an experiment which, they believed, would prove conclusive. Three policemen procured for them from the streets of Boston a drunkard known as "Case 11." He offered terrific resistance to restraint, but was finally subdued, passed into a coma. Reported the physicians...
...Boston drunkard who swore, struggled, had to be held down...
...helped himself to Eugene O'Brien, Ben Alexander, Mae Busch and several other expensive luxuries in casting this picture. The investment seems to have been sound. Without their able acting, the old Western story would have wabbled. It tells of an open-spaces girl married to a creaky drunkard from the East, how he gambled away his character and her fortune and how the burly, silent hero suddenly stepped in from the side lines. The genuine and inventive talents of Miss Busch, in particular, were highly helpful...