Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James Tyrone and his sons seek the same escape, but their ways are closer to the earth: through liquor, prostitutes, and poetry. But they too cannot remain alone in the fog or in the clubs and bars very long, but are drawn back to the white-haired woman, once beautiful, who is their wife and mother, and their grief. And when they return to the house, to unhappiness and sordid squabbling, she is glad: "I was so relieved and happy when you came, and grateful to you. It's very dreary and sad to be here alone...
...adopted, will help bartenders and liquor store operators in determining whether the customer is over 21, Senator Richard H. Lee, chairman of the Joint Legal Affairs Committee said...
...Ways and Means Committee also voted to extend for one year, until April 1, 1957, the present tax on corporation earnings (30% on the first $25,000 and 52% thereafter) and the excise taxes on liquor, cigarettes, gasoline...
...with subversive elements in South Africa and has formed channels of communication between them and Moscow." Consul General N. V. Ivanov denied (as the Communists always do) any subversive activity, but freely admitted another charge leveled by the Union government : that Negroes, who can not buy or be given liquor in South Africa, had been served vodka at Russian consular parties...
Gasping and guffawing, Miami playgoers were watching reckless-driving Actress Tallulah Bankhead run A Streetcar Named Desire completely off its trolley. In the role of beaten, world-weary Blanche Dubois, Tallulah was heartily playing Tallulah. She roared over the boards, always managed to be upstage, downed her onstage liquor as if it were the real stuff, generally hammed her way through the part in a spirit of riotous deviltry. In the play's climactic scene, where the script calls for Blanche to be set up for a rape by brutish Stanley Kowalski, most viewers feared for poor Kowalski...