Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Madame Bourdelle, now 79, still devotes her life to her husband, who died 32 years ago. She recalls how he would get up at 4 in the morning to plunge into his work, how he would almost never accompany his friends to the cafés ("I get drunk another way," he would say), and how she would not let him out of the house with more than 20 francs in his pocket because he was forever giving money away to the poor. "He made himself a great man." Madame Bourdelle says, "The man was at least as great...
There was no question about Brown's fondness for spirits. He usually reeked of them and was frequently drunk. Drunk or sober, he treated Victoria with brusque rudeness, and the Queen was apparently amused. She would laugh delightedly at his crudities and expect her horrified courtiers to do the same. One of her great delights were the Chillies' Balls, at which Victoria and Brown would prance and dance wildly together. "What a coarse animal that Brown is," said Lord Cairns, the Lord Chancellor, to the Queen's secretary, Henry Ponsonby. "I daresay the Chillies' Ball could...
...Knopf; $3.50). Milan, an interior decorator, and his wife Roberte, come from Paris to live in the country, squabble, drink, and toss hard truths at one another like bottles of vitriol. Why? Because, says Milan, "two lovers who love one another passionately can only detest each other, as the drunk detests liquor, the addict dope, the gambler cards, and the invert homosexuals." Héléne, a nubile village schoolteacher, is fascinated by the couple's rantings about their free-loving and free-hating past. "Take her to bed and give us a bit of peace!" Roberte shouts...
...names him only in its title) appears suddenly out of a storm, seeking refuge in an inn for medieval pilgrims to the Holy Land. Somewhere upstairs are the rich Christians, with their finery and servants. But the pilgrims among whom the stranger finds himself are a rabble. Some are drunk. Others rob and cheat each other. One girl finances her pilgrimage by sleeping with whichever pilgrim has the price...
...undertalented ex-postman from Winnetka, Ill., still has not learned to deliver the male. Best line is punched out by Tony Randall, playing as usual the sort of neurotic who, when hurt, hollers "Couch!" When the chemist cooks up a batch of intoxicating mints, Tony gobbles a fistful, gets drunk and belligerent. "Drunk!" he bellows. "Whaddya mean, drunk? I can (hic) hold my candy...