Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...lines. His own character-a small-town tosspot accidentally given the job of cop at the local bank-is labeled Egbert Sousé (pronounced Soo-zay). His small town is called Lompoc-a coincidence which may cause some embarrassment to citizens of Lompoc, Calif. When Mr. Sousé drinks a pony of straight whiskey, he always demands a water chaser, which he uses as a finger bowl; with each drink he requires a fresh chaser, because "I never like to bathe in the same water twice." He is allergic to the mere presence of children. When he spies an urchin...
...Boys?; The Back Room; Set 'Em Up! He does an $85,000-a-year business, "is wined and dined in homes that some social climbers would give no less than their right arm to even get in the kitchen of." Yet he still tends bar, never takes a drink. "You represent a whole period of American history," a college professor recently told him. "Jeez," mused Madden, "maybe they'll stuff me and put me in a museum...
Senator-Bishop Bunker, 5 ft. 10 in., stocky, with dark wavy hair, heavy eyebrows, Clark Gable ears and a hairline mustache, is dapper, earnest, no isolationist. Like the late Brigham Young, he loves to dance.* He observes the Word of Wisdom (no tobacco, tea, coffee or strong drink), chews hundreds of sticks of gum annually; as a bishop he marries, buries, and manages church affairs without remuneration. High-school educated, the son of pioneer ranchers, he entered politics four years ago as a Young Democrat, topped the ticket in 1938 in a race for the Legislature, became Speaker...
...young was very high. Those who survived "benefited from a vigorous life with plenty of sunshine and fresh air." Also to their benefit, they ate nutritious, unrefined sugars and molasses, bread made from vitamin-rich whole meal. And they had many little safeguards: for example, spruce beer, a popular drink, was rich in vitamin...
...Ritz Bar, the Statler, the Lafayette, the Sheraton, the Ritz Roof, and the Beachcomber were favorite dance and drink spots around the town. The Silver Dollar Bar drew a poor last in popularity...