Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...antifascist journalist (Michael Redgrave) who raged through the 1930s with a Cassandra's customary success, retires to sit out World War II on Thunder Rock, in a Great Lakes lighthouse. Embittered, soaked with liquor and self-pity, he is content to let the world go hang. While it hangs, he entertains himself by conjuring up in his imagination a number of immigrants from Europe who drowned near his lighthouse a century ago. Before long they all but take on flesh & blood, act out for him the tragedies and the defeats of their own lifetimes...
...hummable "Always," "Christmas Holiday" has its tense and effective moments. Gale Sondergaard delivers a spine-tingling performance as the aristocratic matriarch of an old New Orleans family, trying to keep her bad little boy from going around murdering people and otherwise disturbing the Creole peace. Richard Whorf portrays the liquor-loving newspaperman in just the right tones of big-time tenderness...
Finns Bow. For a fortnight the Finns had queued up before Government Alko-holiliike (liquor stores), which had suddenly opened after a long shutdown. They had drunk toasts to peace. Then, at last, under the eye of old Baron Carl Mannerheim, Prime Minister Antti Hackzell broadcast Nazi weakness to all the world: "It is not possible for Germany to give us sufficient help to stay...
...federal excise taxes (except liquor, tobacco and gasoline) should be abolished...
Georgia will close all State liquor stores, not only on V-day, but for two days thereafter. In Raleigh, N.C., the Allied