Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barry Fitzgerald is becoming typed as an amiable drunk, but this role as a male governess who hides Irish whiskey in every cranny of his bedroom is exactly suited to him. Wauda Hendrix is okay...
...were there. Maurice Thorez, rosy-cheeked and beaming, wearing a grey business suit, slapped guests cordially on the back. Jacques Duclos, dapper in a black jacket and grey pants, cracked jokes, took no offense when a guest asked him, "What, no vodka?" Duclos cracked, back: "No, and no American whiskey, either." André Marty, the salty old mutineer, solicitously handed around plates of sandwiches, salted almonds and cookies...
...victory parties and dances lasted most of the night. Maybe some of them are still going. Harvard men drowned Yale men in gallons of whiskey and then swam in to help out their unhappy brothers. A guy could retire if he had a nickle for every bottle of liquor that went down the hatch Saturday night
There is a universal felling among Hollywood writers that no musical is complete without heartbreaking tragedy. The phony tearjerker in "When My Baby Smiles At Me" centers around Dan Dailey. He is cast as an old-time burlesque comic and a man who knows the pleasures of rye whiskey. When he also turns out to be pretty much of a goon around the ladies, he loses his wife. Penitent and thirsty, Mr. Dailey proceeds to booze himself right smack into Bellvue. This kind of involved business takes a lot of heavy weepy acting to pull off and Dan Dailey simply...
...Some of it is what the whole book imagines itself to be: plain common sense and practical advice. But there is also a great deal of pedantic nonsense whose prissiness would drive a climbing Milquetoast to despair, as he struggled always to say "telephone" (instead of "phone") and "whiskey and soda" (instead of "highball"). "TOMATO," says Author Fenwick firmly, "is better pronounced 'to-mah-to,' as ... it comes from the Spanish Toma-te,' which is pronounced 'tomahtay.'' This is a much hotter potato* than Author Fenwick seems to realize...