Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From all parts of the country the story was the same: Americans were drinking harder than ever. A movieland 1945 Oscar went to the portrayal of a drunk; the book from which the story was taken was a bestseller. In a new sourcebook, Contemporary Criminal Hygiene (240 pp.; Oakridge Press; $4), Psychiatrist Robert V. Seliger of Johns Hopkins and Psychotherapist Victoria Cranford, a coworker, reported that there are 600,000 chronic alcoholics in U.S. institutions and no one knows how many outside; 2,000,000 heavy drinkers; about 38,000,000 "social drinkers...
...Prosecution. Once again Farrell's satire is "like elephants out for a good romp" (as the late New Republic critic Otis Ferguson aptly described it). The dialogue, as usual, is tone-deaf, and the adverbial crunches devastating (Bernard "winced inwardly"; "'Blah!' the drunk angrily ejaculated...
Glass House. In Hollywood, Tom Collins complained to police that Bill Martini was drunk...
...Drunk with Power." Congressmen thundered denunciation of Lewis. Cried Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd: "[He is] drunk with power." Illinois' Senator Scott Lucas, usually on labor's side, said: "If this Government has not the power to outlaw strikes of this character, then this Government has no power of self-preservation...
...interests are more primitive. They are chiefly three: 1) to find a German woman and sleep with her; 2) to buy or steal a bottle of cognac and get stinking drunk; 3) to go home...