Word: dipsomaniac
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...boardinghouse, she gets a job as waitress at a party given by Producer Oliver Niles (Adolphe Menjou), does Esther encounter her hero in the flesh. By this time, like the rest of Hollywood, she is aware that Norman Maine (Fredric March) is an habitual drunkard whose dipsomaniac pranks are an intolerable nuisance or an aspect of his charm, depending on the point of view. To Esther, whom Maine accosts in the kitchen, escorts home and brings to the studio for a screen test, they are presumably the latter. To Niles and his glowering pressagent (Lionel Stander), they are definitely...
From his heredity and background it was natural that Maurice Utrillo should have a talent for painting, but more startling is the fact that Maurice Utrillo was a sodden, wild-eyed dipsomaniac at the age of 15. No school would keep...
...When he got started on his honeymoon four weeks ago, Seattle knew its Congressman was on a rare bender (TIME, May 11). But not until last week, when he returned to Washington, did Seattle begin to suspect that its man was turning from a besotted funster into a raving dipsomaniac. Events of 96 lunatic hours which culminated in Congressman Zioncheck's removal to Gallinger Municipal Hospital for mental observation...
...onetime gambler and dipsomaniac who, at 58, delights in recalling his purple past, Nelson Rounsevell is known chiefly for the autobiography he published two years ago under the title The Life Story of "N. R." or 40 Years of Rambling, Gambling and Publishing, Rumbling, Grumbling and Four-Flushing. Crudely written, paperbound, it read like a dime novel, sold for $1, proved the author to be a sentimental narcissist. Born in Nebraska of "tithing Baptists, Irish fighters and Yankee ne'er-do-wells," young Rounsevell was raised in upState New York, learned to chew tobacco before he was 12. took...
...Lung. It is the same hardy little group of characters who have been regularly encountered in railroad depots, country inns, trains, cross-country buses and every other public place except a comfort station for the past four years: the bad girl with the heart of gold; the dipsomaniac writer; the hero pining for his lost love who makes her appearance in time's nick; the shady financier; the cuckold with his wife and her dishonest lover and all the rest. However, in China Seas this familiar crew has a new and entertaining bag of tricks to display...