Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once upon a time there was a poor man. He was not meek in spirit, but lazy, mean, vituperative and usually drunk. He stood all day long, a beggar, by the church in a little French town, and when anyone gave him alms, he was apt to curse and spit and swipe at them with his stick for thanks. Everybody despised him, and he despised everybody...
When Bette Davis does the hula, it's a bit like watching your aunt get roaring drunk at a party. It's nice to see she has the spirit, but it's also a little embarrassing. The introduction to the new Miss Davis in the second scene of Two's Company is abrupt and somewhat painful. She manages her high kicks with admirable but all too obvious effort, and her rasping, often inaudible singing voice inspires vicarious throat-clearing in the audience...
...Happy Time is the lovable dissolute, Uncle Louie, played by Curt Klasner. Louie is a lazy, shaggy fat man who drinks wine out of a water cooler. He is hilarious as the stooge in Desmond's description of how to snatch a chorus girl's garter. Perpetually half-drunk, his arm wrapped affectionately around his water cooler, Uncle Louie steals every scene he stumbles into...
...best-known cartoonists in the U.S. His two-panel cartoons are populated with such characters as "J. Pluvius Bigdome," stuffed-shirt, penny-pinching president of Bilgewater Beverage Co.; Henry Tremble-chin, Bigdome's browbeaten employee; Phootkiss, the office climber; Lushwell, a well-meaning but unpopular drunk who drags reluctant friends off to the El Clippo nightclub; and Gliblip, the unctuous sales manager. Typical Hatlo situation: browbeaten Mr. Tremblechin, nervously on his way to his first dinner at Bigdome's house, dropping his false teeth and smashing them on the pavement...
...hale, sat down to dinner with 300 sportswriters and friends to celebrate his mandatory retirement from the A.P. at 65. While speaker after speaker told stories about him. Dunkley sat glumly in his place. When the time came for his speech, he rose, said quietly: "Let's get drunk and beat up on each other. This is no time for sentiment." Then he sat down to follow his own advice...