Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...save grains, whiskey production last week was decreased two-thirds, despite Britain's need for salable exports. To save mutton, macon-making has been stopped.* (One shilling ten pence a week may be spent on pork, beef or mutton per adult, fish and fowl excepted.) Not until 1918 was that necessary last time...
...Vivien Leigh for her Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind went Oscars signifying the year's best performances by an actor and actress. Nobody was surprised. Academy selections of the best supporting actor and actress met with general approval: 1) Thomas Mitchell, for his whiskey-soaked doctor in Stagecoach; 2) Hattie McDaniel, for her sentimental performance as the hard-boiled mammy in Gone With the Wind. Cinemactress McDaniel was the first Negro to receive the prize. Posthumous were two awards: 1) to the late Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for international services to motion pictures...
...China war funds. He still delivers his paycheck -unopened-to his 80-year-old mother. He denies his reputation for being able to drink like a Cossack, says he has been drunk only three times (once he drew a blank, once he dimly remembers he downed two quarts of whiskey on a train in Poland, once he got drunk to help survive a Chinese feast of 100 courses), and insists that he drinks only "to celebrate a past event, to indulge the feeling of work well done, or to warm up for the future...
...Opening of an 800-word statement to the tribunal by a London "conchie": "I hope the tribunal is composed of intelligent men and not retired army officers from India, as I can't stand the sight of whiskey purple and bulging veins, especially in the morning." Verdict: condi tional exemption...
Director Hawks has speeded up even the dialogue by forcing his actors to speak 240 words a minute (average conversational speed - 90 words a minute). Rough est spots in the original versions have been sandpapered or excised, the pressroom's whiskey cynicism toned down to half of one per cent, but the comedy still has enough Hecht-MacArthur kick to make later interpolations smell synthetic. Synthetic sample: "What does he [Ralph Bellamy] look like?" Editor Burns: "Oh, he looks like that movie actor-Ralph Bellamy...