Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When handsome Albert Gore called at the White House, conferred with the President, a rumor spread that the Administration will send Gore's clean-cut price bill into the ring in place of the punch-drunk bill the committee had given such a beating...
...night after an earthquake Stahr found a girl who was almost a replica of his dead wife, and they were shortly having an atmospheric affair. Chafing against a hard edge of reluctance she felt in Stahr, the girl married another man. Stahr, no drinker, got dismally drunk. Fitzgerald's manuscript stops at that point. The synopsis, and notes carry the tale down to Stahr's death in an airplane crash, and its curious aftermath...
...thumb-in-the-soup technique, though. That's toe coarse. My main strategy is to concentrate on individuals. That works best at small gatherings, where there isn't too much liquor being served and nobody is drunk. Then I can work up a beautiful tension between the guests and the hostess. They fell terribly sorry and embarrassed at my antics, because they imagine I'm ruining the whole evening...
...stuffy woman," following every motion from hand to mouth. Some people go to the headwaiter and complain, if the event is large enough to merit such a sizeable staff. "Once", he said, "the headwaiter was an old actor, just dying to work something up. So I pretended I was drunk, and he fired me in front of all the guests. I left, but I kept coming back again, out one door and in another...
...parking lot), Claverly, Randolph, and Westmorley. "Then, they went more for the straight stuff with a little ginger alc or soda," reflects the alcoholic expert. "They had pride in holding their own whiskeys. Now that the punch has come in, they start right off with the idea of getting drunk...