Word: dollarium
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...brought back a strange picture. According to the play, the Average U.S. Newsman drinks a glass of whiskey, straight, about every two minutes, habitually refers to himself as a pig, and talks of little else except money, being ridden by what Pravda, in a playful mood, recently called "dollarium tremens." In the newsmen's bar of Act I, even the coat hooks are gilded, and the jukebox-in magnificent synthesis of American degeneracy-contains not only jungle jazz but liquor. Said one real U.S. newsman who saw the play: "There are only two convincing characters in it-a couple...
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