Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That Blonde! (Paramount) is a direct lineal descendant of one of Hollywood's biggest breadwinners during the '20s: the Harold Lloyd comedies of confusion. Eddie Bracken, in a pretty good modern imitation of the Lloyd hurlyburly, teeters precariously on the ledge of a skyscraper, wrestles with a drunk at the frail end of a flagpole and is chased through a maze of hotel corridors by a sinister set of hoodlums...
...mythical) King Mark. Tristan, Mark's favorite nephew, goes to Ireland to bring back golden-haired Iseult to be his uncle's bride. On shipboard, Tristan and Iseult accidentally drink a love-philtre. Cries Iseult's horrified maidservant: "Friend Tristan, Iseult my friend . . . you have drunk not love alone, but love and death together." But "the lovers held each other . . . and Tristan said, 'Well, then, come Death...
Throughout the war, millions of blood donors faithfully kept their appointments, rain or shine, sick or well, drunk or sober.* Many of them now wonder when, and if, they will be called on to give blood again. Won't civilians, at least, still need blood...
...took a drink offered by one of my fellow dischargees, because I felt that soldiers who get discharged were supposed to get drunk. But the lousy cognac tasted just as lousy to me as a civilian as it did when I was a soldier. I had it all planned to say something nasty to the lieutenant who had kept us waiting around unnecessarily while he went to the PX for his rations. But I didn...
...captain young enough to be my son and drunk enough to be in my shoes asked me for a light. I gave it to him. He asked me directions. I gave them-and said "sir," just as I had been taught...