Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something to Live For (Paramount) casts Ray Milland as a reformed alcoholic who might be having a hangover from his Lost Weekend. An advertising man who has not touched liquor in 14 months, Milland is toying with the idea of just one nip. A duty call from an organization something like Alcoholics Anonymous sends him to the aid of promising Actress Joan Fontaine, who has taken to the bottle because she is afraid of facing a Broadway opening night. Milland's interest in her progresses, of course, from the clinical to the romantic. But since he is happily married...
...team. Even though Shamus does not have to pull, he has to break trail, make turns, buck the wind-and even be ready to ignore cats. But in a race, pace is the important thing. "Driving dogs," says Shearer, "is like drinking a bottle of liquor. There's only so much in it. You can either drink it all at once and it's gone, or you can drink it slowly and make it last. One of the things you have to remember is not to go too fast...
...prohibition; in the State Mental Health Institute, Clarinda, Iowa, where she had been a patient since 1947. Hailing the U.S. dry era as "halcyon days," she firmly believed that prohibition would eventually come back to stay. Her credo: "I love God, my country and little children. I hate the liquor traffic and abhor all vice...
...recommendation for an evening's entertainment a stereoscope with "twelve splendid views portraying in the most vivid manner the story of our Savior's life before & after Crucifixion." Sickly Sears customers were urged to wear a "Heidelberg Electric Belt" for nervous diseases, headaches or backaches. There were "liquor cures" (i.e., knockout drops), and Sears' remedy for the "morphine and opium" habit. Pajamas were first carried for men only and its rouge would "never be noticed...
...looked like the biggest binge since Repeal when thousands of customers rushed the nation's liquor stores...