Word: gins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gin & Cacti. As for the paying guests, most were game, and a few were gamesome. There was the wealthy lush who catapulted his Jaguar into the swimming pool ("Every time I go swimming, I keep tasting gin and ethyl"). There was the child-hating old woman who, for the Easter egg hunt, hid the eggs deep in the local cacti. There was the would-be siren on a man spree whom Barbara dubbed "Miss Ladydog." And there were a few prize phonies whom Barbara learned to shun by the chromium on their cars and the fact that their "checks were...
...meals taken at odd moments and carelessly served, form the slim and often beautiful bodies, the naive faces, and the empty glances. Alcohol, strictly speaking, could remedy this situation. And it is true that after six o'clock in the evening, at parties and in bars, cocktails, whiskies, and gin-and-tonics--which, everyone knows, has a quinine base--plunge three quarters of the population into a euphoria which gives to young people a daring that they normally lack and to grand-mothers an illusion of perpeual youth. In this policed, Puritanical society, one must have an "out"; alcohol...
...happy day for the inmates at Luzira. Since it was McKerrow who paid the prison's pipers, he it was who called the tunes. He established an official clubroom in his cell to beguile the prisoners' weary hours with brandy, gin, whisky, cigarettes and regularly delivered copies of British racing forms. For a while the club kept an open stock of canned tidbits, but McKerrow soon had to lock them up because one dishonest prisoner took to pinching the stores. Each evening the select prisoners would dispatch willing warders to place their bets with local bookies...
...House. In London, Sybil Jeanne Hevetson, 61, won a divorce from her husband Cecil, 66, after testifying that he 1) considered himself "a pocket Hercules ... a warrior descended from the Moorish fighters'' but passed out after downing one gin sling; 2) wore khaki shorts and tied the house keys to his belt "to show that he was the master"; 3) penciled in the word "strumpet" when he spotted "wife" on a magazine cover...
...confronted by a stronger will. Only during a few seconds--while skipping blithely around the stage--does her characterization crack. Andre Gregory, as her seducer, is less successful, partially because he is smooth and sneaky at the beginning, instead of developing from pain (at the loss of his gin) to suspicion. Colgate Salsbury plays the crude, calculating husband with his usual energy, and a great deal of success. Although his Southern accent fluctuates enough to consider forgetting it entirely, rapid delivery expresses jarringly the hard personality which inhibits and crushes his wife. Like Miss Linch, Salsbury is expert at varying...