Word: drunkard
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...conducted himself during his stay . . . His drunkenness was a poor example before the boys and girls that admire him greatly." Autry, by then moseying around Kansas, called up one of the preachers to apologize for whooping it up. "I guess you think I'm a reg'lar drunkard," mumbled Autry humbly. "Well, I'm not. I got in with the wrong bunch and before I knew it I got too much...
Oldtime Musicomedy Star Frank Elgin (Bing Crosby) has courted defeat for nearly a decade by mixing self-pity and the bottle. He is, as his wife says, a "cunning drunkard," and he camouflages his self-destructive path with martyrdom on one hand and penitence on the other. His main trouble is that there are two people who believe in him: his wife Georgie (Grace Kelly), who is too strong for her husband and too weak for her own good, and Broadway Director Bernie Dodd (William Holden), who has to fight both Elgins to give Frank a try at the lead...
Winthrop will also have its Christmas dinner tonight, preceding the House play, "The Drunkard...
...painting is more instinctive than intellectual-a matter of fun, not formulae. "The important thing," he insisted, "is to keep the naiveté of childhood. You study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard, or love is within the lover...
...smelled to be believed. The World's championship Rodeo in Boston Garden is wholly credible. From the incongruous bars of "Yours' to the closing "yowees" of the wild horse race, Boston Garden is a real, wild corral. All the best broncs are there: country Butter, Sling Shot, Pig Eye, Drunkard, and the best rides and the prettiest girls. Also The Range Rider and his Saddle Pal. The Range Rider wears blue suede shoes...