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...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...
...Angel Pavement), a man who loves both the Labor Party and his pint of ale, is not exactly opposed to the first idea, but he is vehemently in favor of the second. In his sprightly new novel, Festival, he makes the point with the high glee of a sturdy toper laying about him in a temperance meeting...
Luks's picture of a toper hurtling headlong out of Carey's (see cut) was a case in point: the artist had given new zest to an already hackneyed theme by putting it in brutally simple terms and by contrasting the plight of the flailing drunk with that of his nerveless, serenely floating hat and stick. The artist was found dead in a Manhattan doorway in 1933; his art still hangs serene...
...Stranger but no one ever found out who he was. He had stopped at the Beauchemin's farmhouse one autumn evening to ask for food. When he was invited in to dinner, he stayed on for a year. The Stranger was a great yarner and a great toper but he was also a tremendous worker and he more than earned his keep. Before he left Monk's Inlet, a tiny farm hamlet on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, he had left his mark on the lives of all who came in contact with him. Old Widower Beauchemin...
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...