Word: toper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the gentle toper of Mary Chase's Harvey was introducing his invisible rabbit companion to a host of new friends. A solid success in its first three weeks, the Viennese production of the Broadway hit set off more excitement than Vienna's theater had known in months...
...Manhattan Lawyer Alfred H. Holbrook seemed an incurable collector of paintings. He was, he says, "like a toper who took one swig at the fount of art appreciation and went on a 40-year binge." Between sprees, Collector Holbrook wanted to find out why the habit had such a hold on him. This year he enrolled as an art student at the University of Georgia in Athens, where his classmates were 61 coeds. Last week he still had no logical explanation of his craving for art. But grateful Student Holbrook had presented his entire $175,000 collection, acquired over four...
Headed by R. Llewelln Brill '42, a reformed toper of note, the Prohibitionists plan to use revival methods to secure converts from gutters and rathskellers and to gather them behind the local Party slogan, "No More Gin: No More...