Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through to the car. They're just waiting for you to do something. When I'm driving, I have to take it easy, hang back. If I'd cut somebody off, or anything like that, I could hear them yell, 'There's Godfrey, drunk again.' " <¶Ed Sullivan, tabbed by the late Fred Allen to "last as long as other people have talent," celebrated the ninth anniversary of his Sunday-evening variety show. When it seemed that the occasion would be blighted by the decision of his cosponsor, Lincoln cars, to cancel its share...
Know Thyself. In Luton, England, Thomas David Bolter, onetime sergeant major, was acquitted of being drunk and disorderly after he told the court his drinking capacity was "18 pints when I sit down," replied to the prosecutor's question, "Well, and what about when you stand up?" with "I fall over...
...Here there is no longer talk of Nature, only eccentric fanaticism, delirium-drunk moods and fever-sick hallucinations." So said the conservative Norwegian Aftenposten, outraged at the show of some 50 oils by young Edvard Munch (pronounced Moohnk) in the summer of 1892 in Christiania (now Oslo). The storm of criticism was all that Munch, then 28 and just back from Paris, needed to become a scandalous success in the gloomy provincial city. Berlin painters promptly invited him to show in the German capital, and the scandal was even greater, splitting the Union of Berlin Artists permanently into two camps...
Trees Behind the Church. The letters show Joyce as a man drunk on language. He had the gift of tongues (just for fun, he dashed off translations of a poem by James Stephens in German, Latin, Norwegian, Italian and French). His view of himself was generally rueful, whether he was commenting on his physical "cowardice" or remarking on his "steely cheerfulness in what does not afflict me personally." He read hugely, but at times with so little discrimination that his head felt full of "pebbles and rubbish and broken matches and lots of glass picked up 'most everywhere...
Taking place about ten years after Long Day's Journey into Night, A Moon reintroduces the hard-drinking older O'Neill brother, James Tyrone Jr. Jim Tyrone is by now a wholly dissipated, used-up drunk, his last reserves gone with the death of his mother. The sweet, healthy, hulking daughter of an Irish tenant farmer, a virgin who pretends to be a wanton, has long been wildly in love with Jim. The two come together alone one night, but beyond a quickly aborted impulse of drunken lust in Jim, nothing happens. Partly from knowing he must spoil...