Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Having liquor in their quarters...
Producer Lantz, whose stable of Universal International cartoon characters includes Woody Woodpecker, Buzz Buzzard and Wally Walrus, keeps his feathered and furry folk as innocent and clean-living as a troop of Cub Scouts. Unlike Hollywood's human stars, the animals may not 1) drink hard liquor, 2) smoke, 3) be ghosts, 4) do bumps & grinds, 5) cavort in diaphanous costumes like the kind Betty Grable wears. Chamber pots, privies, cow milking-relics of earlier movie days-are gone forever. Although cartoon villains may belabor all and sundry, no blood may ever flow...
...short, the white bricked buildings around the campus Green do not house monks. Nor do they house naughty, liquor youth. The brutal truth is: they house college men, who act almost like all college...
...fisted drinker who holds his liquor very well, McCarthy does not smoke. He detests cigars. Joe always begins a lunch or dinner speech by coughing raucously into his fist, saying: "Before I begin [cough-cough], I want to ask So & So [cough-cough] just what he has been smoking. It reminds me of my days back on the farm." This serves a double purpose: it gets a laugh, and all head-table smokers stub out their cigars...
...gone to Minnesota, armed with 19,200 shares of T.C.R.T. and complaints about no dividends. As an ally in his fight, he picked up Nightclub Proprietor Isadore Blumenfeld, alias Kid Cann, a wealthy Minneapolis underworld character with a record of 30 arrests (two for murder) and three liquor convictions...