Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnson was Lincoln's choice and a stanch Lincoln supporter, a fact overlooked by historians who cast him as a villain. Like the members of Franklin Roosevelt's "Janizariat," Johnson was attacked as a whipping boy by Lincoln's enemies. The picture does not omit the drunken spectacle Johnson made of himself at his inauguration as Vice President, but the documented fact that he was no habitual drunkard is underlined in the film by a letter to him from Lincoln: "You ornery old galoot; don't you know better than to drink brandy on an empty...
...clamp down on the dirty dives; let's crack down harder on drunken drivers; let's ration our remaining supply of drinkables. And let's quit arguing over prohibition till the war is won and the boys are home to discuss...
Jugged-Celebrity-of-the-Week: lithe, blonde Cinemactress Frances Farmer, arrested for drunken driving. At the station house she demurely gave her age as 15. The officer made it 29 (correct). She told police: "You bore me." The bored police made no published retort...
...their last great triumph. Most sociologists agree that the origin of the vexing "youth problem" of the 1920's was inextricably linked with Prohibition. Sporting flasks and muttering recipes for bathtub gin, American youth of the 20's indulged in more drinking than any generation before or since. Drunken youths were a common sight on the stairs of every entry in Harvard halls. The nation's youth is not only more temperate now than during Prohibition, but the Army has done an excellent job of keeping order in camp and patrolling all adjacent areas. Not only are restrictions enforced...
...best part of the whole picture is the opening twenty minutes--bringing in Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth (Oh Rita), and Thomas Mitchell, who plays one of the best drunken jealous husbands in years. Charles Boyer is a self-loved Broadway Romeo who makes bedroom eyes at Rita, who out bedrooms him until her husband interrupts with a rifle. Boyer puts on a show that makes the whole picture worth seeing, but Mitchell gets his wife back...