Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...barber took all his savings out of the bank and bet them on a horse race. The horse he bet on did not win. Discouraged, the barber spent the night in drunken orgy and stupor. Early in the morning he killed himself...
BURLESQUE?How love came to a drunken burlesque comedian. (TIME, Sept...
...evening of amiable conversation; a genially drunken friend of the family; a correct, quiet, cordial entertainment is the sum. Madge Kennedy plays prettily; the father-in-law is Gilbert Emery, practically the only U. S. actor who can wear a double breasted suit as though he owned it. Critics are generously delighted with Paris Bound. The title refers to the widening quota of comfortable Americans to whom the sea of matrimony is simply a broad Atlantic with French divorce courts at the voyage...
...every year. He will soon walk without nervousness and without arrogance along its tonsured lawns. He will drink, perhaps, at bump suppers until he has become intoxicated. On his individual behavior as on the particular behavior of his 31 merry or pious, ugly or presentable, agile or clumsy, drunken or abstaining, riotous or serene companions, will depend the success of this latest batch of U. S. scholars in Oxford...
...pines toward Valloire, modest neighbor of Cannes, bearing Peleus Chalfont, young U. S. expatriate in search of health. Cloppety-Clop. The same little train bore the pretty Bobbie Parsons and her too ancient husband George, un- pleasantly far from his native Missouri. The toot of a motor horn. Came drunken old Henry-oh with ribalt Mimi, the Duchess. World-weary pilgrims, they journeyed back through the hills to the Temple of Hercules, there to utter loose prayers. Someone answered...