Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tight Little Island" pretty effectively spoofs a number of things, but in doing so also satirizes man's almost complete dependence on the most valuable manufactured product of the civilized world--alcohol. Although the film takes the only supportable position, derision of the teetotalers, it does not sufficiently revere alcohol's place in the modern world...
...thousands of Utah citizens stayed up to watch. The cameras caught many intimate tableaux-an inmate being carried out after a heart attack, the release of a handful of hostages, including a trembling attendant who had been forced to pump the stomachs of prisoners groggy with narcotics and rubbing alcohol. Then the prisoners named the price of surrender: their grievances, over such matters as bad food, harsh treatment, must get publicity and an investigation by Governor George D. Clyde. The convicts snatched at Larson's idea of putting their spokesmen on a national TV network as the best means...
Died. Belle Livingstone, ninetyish, exuberant, high-living hostess who gave a gold-faucet elegance to the era of bathtub gin as the manager of a string of high-bracket ($5 a drink for "Jersey champagne"-grape juice and ethyl alcohol) Manhattan speakeasies; in New York City. Belle maintained (in Belle of Bohemia, a wildly inventive autobiography) that she was discovered under a sunflower in Emporia, Kans. by her foster parents, married four times and spent money faster than she could inherit or divorce it. She called her saloons "salons," outfitted them with overstuffed divans because she felt too many heads...
...more or less inadequate to the occasion of life prior to death, and he seeks purgation in books. But needless to say, he who cannot live with himself does not find is easier to live with another. Rather than submit to a book, he steels himself against it, with alcohol, or inattention, or self-consciousness...
...legal expert who prided himself on his skill with wills and his eye for beauty. He left behind, after his death in 1939, a dilly of a will to prove both points of pride. Not counting 235 bottles of scotch, 165 bottles of champagne, 15 gallons of pure alcohol and one bottle "of Howard County applejack (all of which went down the drain to avoid tax complications), he left a round $900,000 to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to build Shriver Hall of materials "the best obtainable in the world." And he tied his bequest down with stipulations...