Word: drink
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years, he ran one of the most popular restaurants in Manhattan. During that time he befriended the low and the mighty, urged them to drink sturdily and eat what one habitué called his "training table" food. He pounded their backs, and they counted themselves lucky if they were awarded with "palship," Toots's ultimate accolade. He was favored by politicos; Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower had him to the White House, and Jack Kennedy invited him to his inauguration. Every ballplayer worth his mitt got the de luxe, or crumb-bum treatment, and even Bernard Baruch, elder statesman...
...Chicks. For the loyal "pals," it was a sad day two years ago when Toots closed down his "joint" on 51st Street to make way for an office building. Toots got $1,500,000 for his lease, took off for Europe, then returned to New York to eat and drink in other places while he waited fitfully for workmen to build a new restaurant a block north...
...jammed three, four, five, six deep, and the noise was like a rocket's roar. It was just like the old days. "Lemme hear them tills ring!" Toots yelled. To his eleven-year-old son Rory, Shor called "C'm on, little Toots! Drink up! Have a little booze!" A young Roman Catholic priest entered diffidently, and Shor bounded over to him to greet him with a hug and a kiss. It was "Father Bill" McCormick of Brooklyn, who had blessed the new restaurant for Shor a day earlier. "That's the kind of place...
...enough to make a penguin take to the bottle; but Gleason, dieting, munched his Ry-Krisp without benefit of sauce. Although he can, as Susskind says, "put away more Scotch per square hour than any man alive," he rarely drinks on the job. The Gleason legend has much to float on, but he proudly insists that he has never missed a show because of drinking. "I'm a heavy drinker when I drink," Gleason generalizes, "because I can put away a bundle of booze before the lights go out. I like it. Some people like to climb mountains...
...take Hollywood by storm." Gleason told his friends, but Warner Bros, today does not even remember that he was there. He was miscast (gangster, blue-eyed Arab) in a few pictures and spent most of his time performing at Slapsie Maxie's nightclub. Gleason would drink iced-tea tumblers full of whisky ("No booze, no laughs" was his motto) before going onstage to sing and dance and do improvisations, low comedy, and devastating imitations of more celebrated performers. Retreating to New York, and turned down for service in World War II on physical grounds, Gleason spent several professionally lean...