Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stores and cotton warehouses assumed that he had been paroled, congratulated him, seemed to take it for granted that he had mended his ways. He had. He went to work on a farm, married, fathered three handsome children. He became a leader in church and school affairs, never touched liquor, always paid his bills. He told his wife of his past, and she stuck by him. But his fear of arrest never left him. Two years ago, he moved to Atlanta, where he went to work as a carpenter...
...dirty collaborationist who murdered his young French wife. The chase takes him to South America and into a nest of fashionably dressed, fast-living people who are plainly plotting the next Nazi war of aggression. This shady and suspicious-looking set goes in rather noisily for hard liquor, extra-marital kissing, and murder. Before the picture ends, Hero Powell, with the highest possible moral purposes, has done his share of all three...
...Then W.R. went on a trip," said McManus. "I kept on with the beer. Pretty soon came a wire from Kansas: 'I told you to take out the liquor.' Sometimes I think all he looks at is the comics...
...Birnam (Ray Milland) tricks his girl and his brother into leaving him alone in a Manhattan apartment for a long weekend of solitary drinking. His brother, who supports him and knows his drinking habits, has left him no money, no whiskey and no credit with any neighborhood bar or liquor store. Milland, a gentlemanly alcoholic given to reciting from Shakespeare in cultured tones, leaves his dim, disordered room only to cadge money or drinks to get him through his marathon bender...
...Civic Righteousness Committee in explanation: "No Baptist school should confer a degree on a man who likes his poker and drinks his bourbon. I know that we all agree that no man-even the President of the United States-could be a good Baptist and drink his liquor...