Word: drank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quietness" which was to be Booth's greatest contribution to the American stage. Moreover, illness and exhaustion sometimes caused Booth to collapse on the stage. The public was showered with "inside" stories of Booth's drunkenness (in fact, after his first wife's death he rarely drank). But by now he had made himself almost oblivious of the outside world ("I rarely know who's President," he said). One who saw him trudging through the snow "like Hamlet in a greatcoat" said: "I have never yet beheld a sadder [face...
Blonde at 5:15 A.M. Jelke's attorneys in turn let it be known that Pat Ward drank heavily, recalled that she once tried to kill herself in the apartment of Martha Raye, a casual acquaintance, and said she had otherwise conducted herself in such a manner that she had "destroyed [herself] as a moral person ... we believe we proved she is without credibility." When the courtroom was quiet, papers got their stories elsewhere. Jelke, a somewhat overlooked man in the first days of the trial pushed back into the news by smashing his sky-blue Cadillac convertible into...
Seven or eight boys gathered at his house with knives and previously honed belt-buckies early Saturday evening. There they drank beer before going out in search of a victim in the normally peaceful Newton area...
They had lost their jobs, had got behind in the rent, had come to fear they were "sliding to the gutter." He was a photographer; to buy whisky, he got a job as a restaurant counterman. The pair drank . . . and drank . . . and finally made a suicide pact. He remembered saying: "I'm going to strangle you." He remembered her answering, "O.K., honey, get it over with." When he awakened, he found the woman dead. He had turned on the gas-he hadn't wanted to live. Gently enough, the cops led him away...
...From Anheuser-Busch's Prohibition-era near beer of the same name. Clarence's father, a clay miner in Hammondsville, Ohio, drank so much that he was known as "Big Bevo " "Little Bevo" grew so fast that he soon appropriated his father's nickname...