Word: drank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fill the void, Cobb drank heavily, haunted golf courses (his opponents were advised to let him win), delighted in carping on the inadequacies of modern ballplayers and in teaching youngsters the fine points of baseball. He once counseled a teen-age catcher: "You're doing fine, son. But here's something you might try. When the pitcher has already thrown the ball and the umpire is looking at it, you grab a handful of dirt and fling it up into the batter's eyes...
Among major modern U.S. writers, Hemingway showed more internal discipline than Faulkner, who has ruined half his books with careless rhetorical obscurity, and more personal integrity than Fitzgerald, who potboiled and drank away the greatest natural gifts of the three as a novelist. Unlike Faulkner and Fitzgerald, Hemingway rarely dealt with the American scene after his early Nick Adams stories of hunting and fishing in the West. Internationally, Hemingway belonged with Eliot, Yeats and Joyce as one of the prime shapers of modern literature, but temperamentally he was more akin to that roving intellectual foreign legion of Malraux, Camus...
Proper & English. An American by residence, Miss Hewitt came to dote on Wild West sagas, Civil War exploits. But by citizenship and temperament she remained forever England. She drank Scotch whisky, disguised modesty with a tart tongue, concealed generosity by demanding high standards. She was also properly foresighted. Anticipating her death. Miss Hewitt had mailed her own obituary to Mrs. Ogden Reid, onetime publisher of the New York Herald Tribune...
...82nd birthday party-though he is really 81. Father Hugh Kennedy is hanging back for fear the rest of the party will regard him with the dead-cold eye of the Boston cod. Father Kennedy has been an alcoholic, and though it is five years since he last drank, everyone holds his breath until the errant priest refuses a proffered sherry. Between them, Charlie Carmody and Father Kennedy divide The Edge of Sadness, but do not dominate it. In his first book since The Last Hurrah, Novelist O'Connor signs countless lOUs on his people and plot, and redeems...
...Dollarton, near Vancouver, B.C., and married again, this time an actress-turned-mystery-story writer, Margerie Bonner (The Last Twist of the Knife). The newly weds happily roughed it with coal-oil lamps, driftwood fuel and an outdoor privy. Lowry, a barrel-chested man with piercing blue eyes, drank, swam, drank, sang bawdy Spanish ditties to his own ukulele accompaniment, and drank. When the cottage caught fire, he was badly burned rescuing the entire manuscript of Under the Volcano, which came to be the one and only literary success of Lowry's life. At his death he was drafting...