Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...except for the vivid moments of danger, Pasley was dull. No liquor was drunk, no poker allowed. The men did the ship's chores, studied Eskimo dialects, read. The library was ample, largely stories of tropic exploration to while away the dark, endlessly cold nights. Larsen mostly read his collection of all the printed books and papers of all the explorers who had tried to find the Northwest Passage...
...musicomedy Ballyhoo, which "flopped in rather a hurry." Later he sang One Alone for "every chorus audition in town." ("In the chorus I knew that if you look fairly eager you always get a chance to understudy, and as understudy I tried with varying success to get the principals drunk. In short, I progressed...
...Schuster be that Holmes the place to get drunk, but Dartmouth's in town. So take a Holt of this drink, and I'll Carey you home later. Did you Evers see a backfield like the Indians have? It'll be a Black day for Harvard if they get going. But I still Kast my vote for the Crimson. Harvard 14 Dartmouth...
...Holtz looks like a tough nut to crack. At times the actors mingle with the audience in a restrained sort of way and one lucky lady in a second story box has the pleasure of waltzing a few measures with Funnyman Willie Howard who, at the time, plays a drunk Scotsman to heckle Holtz from a new angle. Paradoxically, a large part of the show is devoted to classical Spanish dancer Argentinita and her colorfully dressed troupe who away expertly with a castinet in either hand. Though somewhat incongruous in a slapstick show, they prove that art is as effective...
...story, part pulp dramatics, part pure action, is that hardy perennial about the squadron commander (John Wayne); his friend, the nurse (Anna Lee); the rookie who gets killed (William Shirley); the oldtimer who gets grounded (Paul Kelly); the drunk who is given Another Chance (Edmund MacDonald); the show-off individualist (John Carroll) who learns, at last, what the fight is about, but not until he has played hob with the squadron's morale, materiel and lifeblood. This simple stereotype proves adequate to convey some of the true power and meaning of simple men doing a life-&-death job together...