Word: drunker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stork Club, came notice that hefty (circa 260 Ibs.), raffish TV Comic Jackie Gleason had been tossed out on his leer. With him went his blonde companion of the evening. Complained the Stork's Boss Sherman Billingsley: "He was drunk and rowdy, and the girl was even drunker. We don't welcome that caliber of person as a patron." Wailed Gleason: "I thought it was a joke...
...haven't actually read this, but I walked through it pretty carefully coming out on the train. Do you know what this fellow says? He says we spend most of our money on booze, foreign cars and regional stigmata. Stigmata, oh my God! He says we get drunker than anybody else. He says we keep electric wormdiggers in Hepplewhite chests. Now who the hell has ever seen a worm digger around here...
...Good Companion. In North Sacramento, charged with drunken driving, Daniel Bean pleaded innocent, was asked if he had any witnesses to support his plea, got six months in jail when he replied: "No sir, judge. They were all drunker than...
...between Salinger and Addams, however, is that it's difficult to laugh off Salinger's stories. The characters are all people we might know, not ghouls. "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" shows a malformed little girl wandering about in dreams of terrible unreality while her mother and a friend get drunker and drunker in the next room. And "The Laughing Man," in the form of a childhood reminiscence, deftly reveals the impact of a scoutmaster's love affair on the stories he tells his group...
...Lahr & Mercedes." In the years after World War I-in which he served as a Navy enlisted man-all this paid off. He invented a noisy, red-nosed cop ("Go ahead and call the captain-he's drunker than I am") and hit big-time vaudeville in one jump. His first wife, a beautiful ex-burlesque soubrette named Mercedes Delpino, was his straight woman. LAHR AND MERCEDES, read big newspaper ads, A RIOT OF MIRTH AND IRRESISTIBLE COMEDY. He bought a Packard car and tailored suits, and dreamed of Broadway. "Bert," said the Broadway wise guys...