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...hammiest scenes and lines have been left intact, and are played straight. The barkeeper and the gambler leer, sneer, entrap their victims. Joe the drunkard wrestles in agony with the demon rum; his little daughter quavers Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now, and later dies; Joe remorsefully swears off liquor with the old gag, "I'll never drop another drink-I mean drink another drop." The gambler stabs the squire's son, and the barkeeper's son slugs his old man to death with a gin bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Army Takes to Drink | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...Herr Roosevelt ("I have no brain trust to subordinate. ... I am not a schoolboy who draws maps in a school atlas. ... I am now 52 years old . . . and it does not interest me what kinds of religion there are in the world"). He ranted against Herr Churchill ("the crazy drunkard who for years now has been ruling England"). He ranted against Herr Stalin with the most superb illogic ("nothing but an instrument in the hand of almighty Jewry ... a second Genghis Khan"). The more he ranted the more pathologically insecure did Adolf Hitler sound. He puffed with outraged innocence ("South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia At War: MORALE: The Voice of Germany | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...mort of others becomes so hopelessly entangled that nobody really tries to get the straight of it. Mr. Gable, who can glide through this kind of thing without wiggling an ear, is devilish good in his sure-fire part; so are Frank Morgan (retired judge and practicing drunkard) and Claire Trevor (dancehall hostess). A super Western salted with equal dashes of shooting and sex, Honky Tank will burn no tongues, gag few gullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 13, 1941 | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...does not make his subject matter seem very important, that is because, in his handling of it, he does not make it seem convincing; it may be that he places too heavy a burden on his character, who not only suffers from paranois and homosexuality, but is besides, a drunkard, a drug addict, a bore to his friends, and a silly boy. Nemerov, however, is a writer to be taken into account; a brilliant stylist, he is the most accomplished writer of prose published by the Advocate this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE SHELF | 6/4/1941 | See Source »

...Traditional Mexican farewell song is the lament La Borrachita (The Little Drunkard), sung by Cuatitas Herrera on Decca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: South of the Bravo | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

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