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...bottle of alcohol from her spirit stove in her wrap and stole back to the theater. "Just picking up my stepson's things," she told the doorman as she entered. The doorman nodded sleepily, and Eva slipped backstage. She slopped the alcohol over some newspapers and jammed the sodden mess in among the scenery. Then she dropped a match and flounced out. Four hours later, all that was left of "the oldest theater of its kind" were four walls and a few Greek columns...
...time Ike got to the park, the grandstand was half empty, and the high-school bands-drawn from all over Dickinson County-were huddling in cars and under eaves, sodden and miserable. The television men urged Ike to talk from a dry room under the stands, but when he heard that half of his audience had stuck through the rain, he turned on his heel and splashed through the thick, black mud to the outdoor platform. A solicitous aide tried to shield him with a big umbrella, but Ike brushed it aside. Then he tossed away his broad-brimmed...
Leni's fans in the Berlin courtroom dabbed at their eyes with handkerchiefs as crumpled and sodden as that which 44-year-old Leni herself had twisted and tormented on the witness stand. "Children, children," she cautioned the photographers crowding around her when the trial was done, "save your film. I've only one wish now-to be let alone...
Captain Kent begins dropping his ethical ballast well before he reaches combat. The first value to go is fidelity. Kent loves the wife he left in England and has told himself he will be faithful to her. But the night comes when, sodden with gin and boredom, he seduces a Eurasian girl, mistaking her gasps of pain for pleasure. Afterwards, he loathes himself and the girl...
...hours-complete with such immortal lines as: "[Isabella] arose from the couch whereon she had been carelessly thrown . . ." He could ride and shoot like a Cody or a Hickock. When he was not dead drunk, he could spout a temperance speech that would awaken the remorse of the most sodden toper. When he was not in jail for fraud, slander, bigamy, libel or inciting to riot, he wrung women's hearts with his impassioned campaigns for purity. This was a sore point among his mistresses and his wives; he married at least six, in various cities, and sometimes...