Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produced, The Fifth Column told of Philip Rawlings, a U. S. newspaper man doing counter-espionage work for the Loyalists in Madrid.* Rawlings' job has got him down. He meets an American girl, rapes her in a fit of drunken violence, then falls madly in love with her. Against the pleas and warnings of his superiors, he plans to desert his job and clear out with the girl. At the last minute he is free to do so, because of a Loyalist order releasing all foreign volunteers from service. Then, from a sense of honor and devotion...
...published Madagascar, the Land of the Man-Eating Tree. The Andean Land is a colorful two-volume work on his travels in South America. In The Earth Upsets, he announced that the earth's axis tips a mile to the northeast every year. ("The earth is a drunken staggering thing . . . the greatest acrobat that we have.") His present passions are botany, and a theory that the aurora borealis (still a scientific mystery) "is light sifted through clouds of sub-microscopic insects...
...cannot resuscitate the drunken enthusiasm of 1914, any more than ten million men can be resuscitated from the fields of glory. There will doubtless be a number of flag-waving enthusiasts in this country; and perhaps one of them will even climb on a rostrum in Memorial Hall to address an audience of future soldiers. But however noble-spirited his talk, it will not elicit the raucous cheers of olden times. To convince the new generation of the necessity of war, more plausible arguments are needed than the hackneyed formulae which sent the heroes of 1914 to their graves...
...picture is distinguished by one of Sir Cedric Hardwicke's somewhat sepulchral interpretations of genteel skulduggery, and by the fact that a first cousin once removed of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Alan Napier, plays a drunken coal miner. That invisibility has its decencies too is suggested when the invisible man turns his back to the audience to remove his visible pants...
Juno and the Paycock shows a family meeting a tragic fate through the weaknesses of a comic character. The Paycock's artful dodges and arrant hypocrisies, his braggart airs and grandly drunken delusions, are uproariously funny. But eventually his besotted dance is over and the piper must be paid. Then the light falls on Juno, who-her son murdered, her daughter betrayed, her home destroyed-goes forth, heart crumpled but head high, to begin life over...