Word: tequila
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still handsome at 45, tall, black-haired, brogueish, magnetic Rex Ingram prefers tequila to Scotch, smokes pipes and cigars, hates to ride in airplanes, says he needs very little money to get along on. To people who ask him if he doesn't get bored with so little work to do, Rex Ingram replies that he only started to work when he quit his job in Hollywood...
...Saber-Tooth Curriculum, a satire on educators, consists of a series of lectures on the history of paleolithic education, delivered by a fictitious Professor J. Abner Peddiwell while he drinks tequila daisies at a Tijuana bar. Professor Peddiwell reports that the three fundamentals taught to youngsters in this curriculum were: 1) fish - grabbing -with -the -bare -hands, 2) horse-clubbing, 3) saber-tooth-tiger-scaring-with-fire (see cut). When fish became too agile to catch with the bare hands and horses and tigers disappeared, schools nevertheless went on teaching the old fundamentals for their cultural value. Eventually progressives, insisting...
...Vera Cruz Harry and Limo hid out with Limo's girl, Alicia, in her dirty cantina, but one day they got gav on tequila and were dumped in jail by the Spig soldiers. While Limo waited for the British Navy to come and chastise the Mexicans he taught Harry how to click dice in his palm without turning them over, how to roll them out just hard enough to turn over five times after hitting the blanket. "Being greedy," he advised, "has probably ruined more good scientists than anything else. And after all, what in hell difference does...