Word: dipsomaniacal
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Between long periods of melancholy, drunkenness and adventure, Seabrook struggled to write books, short stories, articles. Finally, desperate and dipsomaniac, he went voluntarily to a New York State hospital for the insane (Bloomingdale) where he was forcibly kept from drink for nearly a year. On leaving, he was sufficiently cured to write three books, "to dance with Mrs. Vincent Astor . . . and win the Herald Tribune garden-club prize for the best-kept lawns and flower beds...
...Phony Booster, who peddles sleazier ties which he claims to have stolen but which he really bought very cheap. Paddy despises Mac as a racketeer but, as the dipsomaniac bouncer at Jollity Danceland tells him, soothingly, "It takes all kinds of people to make up a great city...
...talented Gillam showed Republican Blaine standing coyly before his party leaders, his stout, bedrawered figure tattooed with his allegedly scandalous record. Democrats chanted: "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, Continental liar from the State of Maine." Republicans got dirt in their fingernails digging up the story of Maria Halpin, a dipsomaniac widow by whom Cleveland had had an illegitimate child. Republicans intoned: "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa? Gone to the White House. Ha! Ha! Ha!" Democrats ghoulishly chiseled out the date of birth on Elaine's son's tombstone, then hinted that Blaine had married...
Divorced. Funnyman Ed Wynn (Israel Edwin Leopold), 50; by Hilda Keenan Wynn, daughter of the late Actor Frank Keenan; in Reno, Nev. She won $300 a week alimony. Funnyman Wynn charged that his wife was an incurable dipsomaniac, intoxicated "95%" of the time when not under direct medical care, for which he had spent...
...young men in the foreign service—touched a little by reading Proust," slept with a handsome swimming instructor who "smelt like a spaniel that's just had a bath," brooded over missing out on a rich, titled Englishman. The Senator's sorrows were bad arteries, a dipsomaniac sister. President Winthrop's "New Age" amateurs swarming over Washington. In spite of the perfect April weather he got to his office in a fit of the blues, moped through the morning over the vanished glories of his past, looked sadly at his trout flies...