Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fears of Guerrillas. Around the polished brown mahogany table in the White House Cabinet room the congressional leaders gathered-Senators seated up front with Ike, Dulles. Lodge and Nixon, Representatives seated against the walls. A Filipino mess steward served coffee. (Ike drank Sanka.) Through the long French windows a light snow could be seen covering the rose garden as the President began to speak: "Here is the situation and what I'm going to do about...
...Barry, wife of a vice president of the Michigan Bell Telephone Co.: "It seems wiser to have one's best friends outside the company." Many of the wives reported that they had seen careers hampered rather than helped by overly chummy wives as well as by those who drank or talked too much...
...White neither smoked nor drank, but now the patient asked Dr. Thigpen for a cigarette. As she puffed, she prattled in her new, brittle voice: "She's been having a real tough time. She's such a damn dope though . . . What she puts up with from that sorry Ralph White-and all her mooning over the little brat! To hell with...
...Paris, he "rebelled against the order of my life," drank Pernod at the Deux Magots, attended the Sorbonne "desultorily," and began a novel about a young man who sets out to murder his father. Much rewritten since then with his father's encouragement, the novel is still unpublished. But since he returned to the U.S. and finally embraced his father's career as writer and teacher. Charles has broken into print as assistant editor of Fadiman's anthology The American Treasury, and this April Harper's will publish his Lincoln's Commando, a biography...
Bogie admitted that he trusted only people who drank. This meant most of Hollywood. But he said once, when he was making $200,000 a picture, that "I've survived pretty well in a rough business, don't you think?" He did survive, and probably will for several years, not because he was a great actor but because he was an entertaining one. He scarcely ever was anything but Bogie in the movies, but that was something...