Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like a silver coin. Whatever its faults, there is nothing pinched or paltry about it. Its stagecraft is clumsy at times and its plot too theatrical, but its background is richly Irish and its two middle-aged title characters-sturdy, ill-used, valiant-hearted Juno and her strutting, shiftless, drunken Paycock of a husband-are abundantly alive...
...author) become the storm centre of a three-sided feud in small Dunbury. The argument is of industrialists v. landed snobs v. common people-over which class shall have the use of the Market Hall. Abetted by a lot of old-fashioned plotting and comic incident and by a drunken representative of Old England At Its Best, the workers win, and every good person gets what he was after. Thus combined, Author Priestley's warm social anger and his famed, rather beefy affability make Let the People Sing a novel easy to disregard but hard to dislike...