Word: tippler
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...veteran stage and screen comedian who started out in show biz as a theater usher; of cancer; in Los Angeles. DeWolfe and his drooping mustache appeared in numerous vapid Hollywood comedies (the first: Dixie, in 1943) before hitting the big time with an impersonation of Mrs. Murgatroyd, a matronly tippler, in Blue Skies (1946) and later with a performance as a stuffy diplomat in Call Me Madam (1953). His successes on the stage included his role as J.B. Biggley in the London production and New York revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying...
...experience for Flip, who might stand as the model for a black Horatio Alger character. Born Clerow Wilson in 1933, one of the 18 survivors among 24 children in his family, he was "so poor even the poor looked down on me." His father was a carpenter and sometime tippler who was always looking for work. "Occasionally he'd just stand on the corner with his hammer and saw, waiting for someone to come by who needed a job done," recalls Cornelius Parker, whose family ran a funeral home across the street from where the Wilsons lived...
...tippler himself, Rahu stole and sipped the nectar of immortality. As punishment, he was snipped in two by Vishnu. The sun and the moon tattled on Rahu; he still tries to retaliate by swallowing them. Sometimes he does, causing eclipses, but they always slip through his throat...
Deputy Interior Minister Boris Shumilin recently urged a comprehensive, nationwide approach to the problem. Heeding Shumilin's advice, the Moscow City Soviet (akin to a city council) adopted tough ordinances banning the sale of booze in the vicinity of industrial sites, schools and recreation areas. Where once a tippler could pick up a bottle at countless corner groceries and even special kiosks along major streets, henceforth only special liquor outlets, supermarkets and department stores will be permitted to sell the stuff. Other Soviet cities can be expected to follow Moscow's lead, and a national law is likely...
...than four-fifths of the 20 gallons per head consumed annually, leaving the home in second rank as a place to drink. But Britain's new stop-and-sniff law, which went into effect Oct. 15, threatens to change all that. It authorizes police to make a suspected tippler pull to the curb and take a "breathalyzer" test-that is, he must blow into a bag in which crystals that change color indicate how much alcohol he has imbibed. After a mere two pints of beer, or four small tots of whisky, he risks arrest...