Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comedy team of acrobats, tap and ballroom dancers, comedians, songbirds, straight men. Gus Van (of venerable Van & Schenck) did a tear-jerking ballad about the good old days; Ray Bolger danced a comic solo interpretation of the Joe Louis-Tony Galento fight; James (Tobacco Road) Barton played a drunk; Beatrice Lillie (who played the Palace in 1931 at $10,000 a week) sang There Are Fairies at the Bottom of My Garden...
...read the sport pages: "I might begin believing those things they write." When the afternoon paper was delivered to their neat, $35-a-month apartment on Beverly Hills' Burton Way, his wife tore out the sport section and put it away. As sensitive to excitement as a punch-drunk fighter is to bells, Patton didn't want any gongs ringing inside...
...testified that the doctors had given him up for dead. He had drunk master-cell water and was still alive. A veteran said that he had been cured of violent malaria. A woman said she had got rid of her corns...
...Romero carried his shoes in one hand, his hat in the other, that stones might rip his feet and the sun strike his head and his penance be more severe. Onesimo Cadena, from the sierra, walked with head bowed. He intended to ask forgiveness for being drunk in a cantina when his wife died unattended at home. Alfonso Noriega joked, laughed and wove a crown of flowers as he walked; he wanted to thank the Virgin because his store had made so much money this year. Arnulío Garcia stepped along with a pocketful of Querétaro...
...villains, suffers very well as a man who has fallen so low that the mere dodging of death is all that he lives for. Peaceful Jones (Charles Kemper) is a refreshing anomaly from the tired list of western old-timers and dry-tongued farmers. After each Saturday-night drunk, he is chained to a tremendous log (Furnace Creek has not yet got around to building a jail) which he cheerfully heaves up and carries along with him, back...