Word: rotgut
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...produced on Broadway in 1956, three years after the playwright's death. Translated to the screen by Director Sidney Lumet, who has added nothing to O'Neill's playscript and taken very little away, Journey provides a raw red slice of family life, liberally garnished with rotgut, morphine, vitriol and sour grapes, that takes more than three hours (allowing intermission) to digest. But it feeds the inner...
...WIDE CONCESSIONS, headlined the Rand Daily Mail, and the head of the temperance movement cried, "I can see only evil arising from this measure . . . Africans don't drink to enjoy it . . . they drink to get drunk." Angriest of all were the shebeen queens, whose brimming vats of fermenting rotgut would become unsalable when their thirsty black customers finally could walk around the corner and buy the real stuff...
...recent Sunday in Lima, a mob of swarthy, high-cheekboned workers crowded into the courtyard of an old two-story building called "The House of the People." In a carnival mood, the workers guffawed at puppet shows, consumed bowls of guinea-pig soup and bottles of rotgut pisco brandy sold at kiosks emblazoned with the initials of the political party hosting the blowout-APRA. By such homespun come-ons, Peru's American Revolutionary Popular Alliance was busily laying the groundwork last week for the 1962 presidential election-and what the movement thinks is its best opportunity to rule...
...made to trace the origin of that wonder word "viggerish." There are other omissions; how did they ever miss such expressions as on the q.t., go pound sand (meaning "The hell with you, bub"), sitzfleisch (perseverance), penobscot (falsie), fen (well known to every boy who ever played marbles), screech (rotgut), or that masterpiece of imaginative profanity, the blivit (a term of personal description usually defined...
...Janeiro. The five-mile crescent of Copacabana and the other Rio beaches blazed with the ritual candles of some 600,000 devotees of Brazil's fastest-growing cult: "spiritism." Altars were set up everywhere in the sand, heaped with fetishes and food offerings, bottles of beer and the rotgut alcohol known as cachaça. Around the altars, while drums pounded faster and faster, men, women and children danced and shouted, stomped and babbled. Yemanjá, goddess of the sea, was the special object of honor; poor families from Rio's slums and evening-clad nightclub patrons waded...