Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...security of marriage. Likewise, the scene with the young bill collector is completely lacking in lyric quality and only the primitive element is played. The way in which Miss Humphrey delivers, "I've got to be good--and keep my hands off children," using her lower register and a drunken slur, is strongly reminiscent of Tallulah Bankhead. There is nothing gossamer here...
Poop Deck. In Toronto, Clifford Nesbitt staggered while undergoing an intoxication test for drunken driving, won an acquittal when he explained: "I'm an ex-sailor. That's my swagger left over from naval days...
...raised $2.5 million in cash and pledges for "Girls' Town, U.S.A.," a haven to be built in southern Florida for "lost, frightened, abandoned girls from ten to 18 who need care and help." Gregg, a onetime chorus girl accused of adult delinquency in the past (charges of drunken driving, resisting arrest, slugging cops), made it clear that her nonsectarian, non-profit project is no transient whim. Said she soberly: "It would help to correct the alarming rate of violence and abandoned sex that we read of every day. I want to devote the rest of my life to this...
Throw Down the Gimlet. In Ipswich, Australia, arrested for drunken driving after he had spent three hours drinking rum, whisky, vodka, schnapps, wine and beer, Neville J. Eraser boasted: "I can still drink you cops under the table...
...Dene was cut out of it entirely; after two months of psychiatric and other treatment, he got a medical discharge and was sent home to his wife, Singer Edna Savage, 22. Edna had had her eye blackened by Terry before they were married, saw him arrested for drunken brawling three times in 18 months, vowed: "If the army loses Terry Dene, I'm afraid Terry Dene will lose...