Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gracious old Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Cinemactor Don Ameche, Hollywood's No. 1 impersonator of great inventors, posed for his picture in a nightclub, thus irritated a neighboring drunk, presently found himself deep in an exchange of unpleasantries. Ameche wound up and threw a punch, four pretty models screamed, the drunk was thrown out. Ameche's punch had missed, but the season was under...
Tory Edward Legge-Bourke rose and cried: "Today there are right honorable gentlemen sitting on the Government front" bench who are drunk. . . ." Shouts drowned his words. When order was restored, Legge-Bourke explained: "I was going to say, had I been given a chance to finish my sentence, that I consider the right honorable gentlemen on the other side of the House are drunk with power...
Crossfire (RKO Radio). In Richard Brooks's wartime novel, The Brick Foxhole, some U.S. soldiers got drunk on a civilian's liquor, suspected him of being a homosexual, and beat him to death. RKO has changed the civilian (well played by Sam Levene) into a Jew, and Crossfire emerges first in the field in Hollywood's anti-anti-Semitic sweepstakes...
...find it not at all difficult to share his disgust on realizing that his life, and the programs the country listens to, are shaped by the whims of a tyrant-sponsor. This churl is delineated expertly, if a touch too silkily, by Sidney Greenstreet. And Adolph Menjou's sodden-drunk recital of the way he got ahead by giving a friend and associate the shaft, is strong, frightening acting. In fact, for a movie presumably depending on the title and the names Kerr and Gable for its impact, the casting is excellent and expensive all down the line...
...California's Sierra, the 60-year-old Georgia Peach was driving with his onetime housekeeper, 38-year-old Lucille La Pointe. When she was nabbed for a traffic violation, Cobb started riding the justice of the peace from the sidelines. The justice blew up, jailed Cobb for "being drunk on the public highway," later released him on $25 bail...