Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robin Homet, as Professor Tommy Turner, is called upon to be drunk, to be eloquent, to be amorous. Homet not only handles all these individual assignments excellently, he ties them into a sharp, consistent characterization. Too often actors playing the crusading professor let the wit of authors James Thurber and Elliot Nugent carry scenes for them. In Homet's battle with liquor in the second act, however, there is no coasting. It is his highest point in an evening of good touches...
When the last ceremonies were over and the last toast drunk, the President and el Presidente bade each other a cordial goodbye and adios, and Ike motored 72 miles back to Texas. Laredo's mayor, who is named Hugh Cluck, greeted the weary but still beaming President, and saw him off on the Columbine for the trip back to Washington...
During the third quarter of last year's Dartmouth game, a lone and blissful drunk wobbled from the stands and threw his arms around the north goal post. While he and the post swayed in unison, Boston police swung into action. A Keystone Cops chase with a Sonnet style pile-up at the finish followed, and as the drunk was led from the field it was touch and go as to whether he or the police looked sillier...
Conclusion Foregone. So far, Hall had kept enough control of himself to carry out his complicated plan. Now, with achievement, his character betrayed him. He and Bonnie drove 240 miles east to St. Louis and rented an apartment. Both promptly got drunk. They fought, and Hall, after battering Bonnie's face, walked out. He went to a saloon and watched the sixth game of the World Series on television. He left behind a wrapper for a $2,000 packet of the ransom money. A barfly picked it up, looked at the figure, dropped it back on the floor...
Hager was scared, so scared that he called St. Louis Police Lieut. Louis Shoulders, telling him: "I've got a guy that's really hot. He's throwing away money and lots of it. He's got a big gun, and he's drunk and on dope." With a patrolman. Shoulders went to the Town House, an apartment building where Hall had rented Room 303, and where he expected Hager to bring him another woman. The patrolman, following instructions from Hager, knocked three times and called: "Steve, this is Johnny." Hall unlatched the door...