Word: drinkin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning of the year's first snowstorm, the reader is plunged into an atmosphere of family hatreds and tensions that recalls Playwright Eugene O'Neill at his grimmest. Whisky-soaked father Bridges hates his domineering, straitlaced, Bible-reading wife ("A clothespin in bed . . . Gotta keep drinkin' just to forget the 'normous wooden clothes-pin"). Mother Bridges, on her side, despises Bridges for his worthlessness, his decayed delusions of get-rich-quick grandeur...
Locally they will agitate against "drinkin' and sinnin'" at football weekend cocktail parties, the Bunnies said, claiming that their movement was 'already "sweeping Leverett like wildfire." In the international sphere they propose to aid China by national prohibition, which will naturally increase consumption of Chinese...