Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joint Account. In Ottawa, Ont., Edmund Killeen went to police headquarters to bail out his wife, who was charged with bootlegging, was arrested for being drunk, had to be bailed out by his wife...
...rest of the day wasn't too different than I had planned." Of course, he did not shrug off the defeat. "I must have thought 200 times--what if I had done this, what if I had done that. But I didn't go out and get drunk or anything," he says. Most of the other players spent an unusually quiet evening, with friends or dates or alone...
Alone and afoot on Hollywood Boulevard in the small hours, TV's volatile Producer-Actor Desi (I Love Lucy) Arnaz, 42, was collared last month by roving plain-clothes vice squadmen, booked on a "plain drunk" rap. Protesting his sobriety and threatening to call his friend, G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, into the case, Arnaz finally coughed up $21 bail, was driven home by his chauffeur. Last week when the case came up in court, Arnaz did not. Bail forfeited. Case closed...
...than tea is the cup that cheers, and one hero downs 30 pints in one night. In The Pearl-Sewn Shirt, a lovely young wife turns to a wine-guzzling old woman for companionship in her husband's absence. The old woman returns her friendship by getting her drunk and pushing her into adultery with a wealthy young merchant. This is one tale that readers of lending-library triangle stories will have no trouble appreciating. The enraged husband divorces his wife; years later they meet again. She is now another man's concubine and he is remarried...
What is there to say about Smaragthi? Beautiful, of course, and so rounded in the right places that even her foster father tries to violate her when, drunk again, he comes home to find her naked and asleep. But even though Smaragthi's face and figure dominate the small fishing village of Skala, she has to share a sensuousness that in the end is bigger and sweeter than she. For Novelist Myrivilis is not just in love with his heroine-he is in love with Greece...