Word: boozehound
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...book is full of basically decent men who seem obliged to come across as loudmouthed smart alecks. "Jim, old buddy, how's your sex life?" is a Westport way of saying hello. "What are you running here, a desert?" is a necessary preamble to ordering drinks. Even the boozehound on doubles has a wretched little snapper handy: "Two Scotch on the rocks, put them in the same glass, will you?" The irony is that Dillon is painting a verbal desert inhabited by people who live off words. His achievement, modest but real, is that he manages to populate...
Donald Cook manages to make something quite comic out of his Southern boozehound. His acting is a line job of underplaying and exact timing. If the other stars had the same energetic approach things might be a little more interesting. Neva Patterson appears briefly as a Conover model. Miss Patterson is not only a dazzling woman but a fine actress, and it's too bad that she has been given a part that is poorly written...
...Boozehound. In Brookline, Mass., Tiger, a two-year-old beagle, accidentally locked in an auto trunk for 21 days, survived, regained twelve lost pounds on a diet of eggnog...