Word: drink
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Patterson at 69 still goes to his office each morning at 9:30. At noon he usually wanders over to the Adventurers' Club (his qualifications for membership: 36 summers spent fishing in Canadian woods) to idle away the afternoons swapping yarns with a drink at his elbow. Mild-mannered, spry, Pat chews an unlighted cigar while he talks in a voice so low that it frequently dies away to a mumble...
...Streets of Paris, at the Fair, is half the size it was on Broadway, and on the whole a livelier show. Unhappily missing are Dazed Comedian Bobby Clark, "Think a Drink" Hoffman with his magic bar tending, and Carmen Miranda with her tropical lure. But missing also are half a dozen numbers that slowed up the show, while Abbott & Costello are crazier and better than ever. New to the show is Gypsy Rose Lee, with her famous absent-minded striptease. If it doesn't make up for Miranda, it keeps anyone in the audience-temporarily at least-from thinking...
Grant explains his later success by better parts. Says he: "The characters can do something. For instance, they drink." Grant himself, who seldom refuses a glass, has scaled the dizzier heights of Hollywood society, and his New Year's Eve parties are among Hollywood's best...
...While other composers are mixing musical cocktails for the public," Sibelius once said, "I offer them a drink of clear, cold water." This illustrious statement has probably journeyed into the language of every civilized people on the globe, and been grasped at by music lovers as a reason for liking Sibelius. Yet if one would arrive at a comprehensive appreciation of his music, it is impossible to take the remark seriously. True, in the symphonies and tone-poems, there are passages of a woodwind complexion, of a curious rough-hewn quality, which have been traditionally seized on as the hall...
...Harlan, Ky., because St. Mark says "They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them ..." members of the Little Pine Mountain Church of God were vexed when Kentucky's Legislature recently passed a law imposing a $50-$100 fine on those who (after June 12) "display, handle or use a snake or reptile in a religious service." Pastor George Washington Hensley last week told how his church, by testing faith by poison, had already got around the Legislature: "Brother Bradley Shell took a large dose of strychnine powders about...