Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he fired his partners without feeling, and he deserted his night-club in Paris to enlist in the Belgian army in the World War as a publicity stunt. When the war was over, Raoul tried to start again, but his lungs were weak, and his partner was drunk on the opening night. Helen, a former partner of his who had left him when he confessed that joining-up was not an unselfish act, agrees to dance the Bolero with him so that the first night will not be unsuccessful. The dance thrills the Parisian elite, there are braves...
...past. Comfort will be derived, too, from the sparkle and rest radiating from every word of a man who had reached the age of 74 on a constant diet of fine liquor and rich food, and who, in retrospect, regretted nothing save the bad wines he had drunk. "Sparkling Lacrima Cristi. . . suggested ginger beer alternately stirred up with a stick of chocolate and a large sulphur match." George Saintsbury's "Notes on a Cellar Book" suggests fine old port, beautiful and savory in its cut-glass goblet, warming and exhilarating in its proper home...
...fourteenth, Anna is ordered by the proprietor of a "Dancing" to depart with her flowers; "she does not like to be kissed by drunk and very very rich patrons, well she shall leave." Slightly annoyed, Anna meets her neighbor Jean, a taxi driver, and tells him her woes. Anna and Jean appear to be fond of one another; they quarrel; they settle their petty grievances in a doorway. The rain that had scattered the jubilant throng stops. Life is indeed pleasant. But there is a harlotish-looking friend of Jean who drops into his room and insists on staying...
Annabelle and Georges Rigaud act with a finesse that we wish American actors would imitate. When they are meant to be healthy young animals, they are. "The rake," Raymond Cordy, handles one scene almost as expertly as Charles Chaplin; he is a drunk, one you would tolerate eternally in your drawing room if he were always as comical...
Irish leader was Edward Cleary, a "graduate" of Sing Sing. He was found drunk in bed. In his dormitory and in the cosy little study he had fitted up for himself and his staff were three 10-gal. milk cans of home brew, a "deck" of heroin, a refrigerator bulging with contraband provisions which he sold or bartered for services...