Word: gins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasure to the poor. But the satire in Pygmalion has worn less well than the comedy. Much the funniest scene in the play is Eliza's first appearance in society: with the purest, pear-shaped tones and impeccable enunciation, she recounts the horrendous yarn of how her gin-swilling aunt was "done...
...quasi-edible mélange. The $7.50 guests could take it in the dining room; the $5 crowd could fight for it, or away from it, at a buffet board. Many a farsighted Montrealer had booked rooms in the hotel days in advance, to drink rye or gin, and imported champagne at $30 a magnum...
...book, it says on the program, but it doesn't amount to much. The "story" is about a Staten Island flapper who wanted to marry money and did, after losing a Miss America beauty contest, visting a speak on the arm of a fated gunman, eluding a greasy gin-mill manager, falling in love with another gunman, jilting a dance-marathon winner, and double-crossing the favored trigger...
...Billion Dollar Baby" has two acts; the first is too long and monothemistic, feverishly satirizing the raccoon coat and bathtub gin, while the second, in a different vein, is a Daliesque stylization of a flapper's dream. The last scene is a throwback to Act I, with the flapper marrying the millionaire and the stock market tumbling down upon their presumably empty heads...
...years has been estimated at $260,000. He spent $150,000 on two California homes. When stiffer wartime taxes came along, Morse hired a businessman friend of his to run his financial affairs. The friend now doles him out a modest $30-a-week allowance for lunches, smokes and gin rummy losses...