Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morrison was also finding her new jobs. While he was closing some doors, he helped to open a new gateway. That was the historic gateway to world trade which the city, in the mid-'20s, had apathetically let fall into disrepair. Louisianians like Investment Banker Rudolf Hecht, Soft Drink Tycoon William G. Zetzmann and Port Director E. O. Jewell had dedicated themselves to the task of making New Orleans one of the nation's greatest ports...
...Throckmorton. The gum-chewing Daily News was fascinated with an ermined customer who puffed a fat cigar while she sipped a drink. Its picture of her was hastily identified as "A Mrs. Throckmorton (she's not in the Blue Book, by the way)." A day later it told more about her: she was not just any old Mrs. Throckmorton, but the Mrs. Cleon Throckmorton of Cape Cod and the nightclubs, who was "reliably reported to carry $4,000 in her handbag at all times-plus a gat in good working order. She . . . once appeared in a nightclub...
Punch before lunch before lunch, thought Vag, how delightful. Luncheon, luncheon, puncheon before-I'll go, he decided. It wouldn't be right to cut his own roommate, even though that nutmeg floating...I can't, Vag said suddenly aloud, I can't drink that awful, awful awful any more. He braced himself for the shower, braced two or three times experimentally, then slumped into the chair and on with the radio. "And now our Morning Pops program, brought to you by Almeda Fiddle, presents Arthur Fiedler and the Bawwstun Pawwps in De Riccerio's "Dance of the..." Bang went...
This self-portrait of CRIMSON staff artist Drink A. Bowlfull ocC shows the little man in his usual overworked condition. The cartoonist is so harried, in fact, that he misconstrued yesterday's holiday as a personal armistice and took off for Scollay Square and a short rest...
Edie prefers to drink coffee laced with rum, never lets the house pick up the check. Says she: "When a guy takes me out, he takes out a girl -not a column." But the "Rambling Reporter" goes along too. As Edith says: "Everything I hear goes in one ear and out the column...