Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...must-go-on, a pretentious cantata celebrating the Academy and such production-number props as the U.S. flag. Through it all, breathing hard and never able to obey the cadets' admonitions to "suck in that gut," Cagney struts, mugs and rampages with the embarrassing insistence of a pugnacious drunk whom no one quite dares to lead to the door. For its best moments, The West Point Story depends on talented Dancer Gene Nelson and the pleasant voices of Gordon MacRae and Doris Day in some tuneful Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn songs. As Cagney's girl friend...
...soldier exclaims: "What a wonderful thing is metaphor." Fry, in the last analysis, pins his real faith on words-by no means a bad thing for a writer to pin it on. He sometimes loves words too well: The Lady shows a streak of the clever undergraduate, the babbling drunk; it plays practical jokes on the slopes of Parnassus. Like much poetry today, it turns abruptly colloquial, with calculated bathos; at other times it bellies out with defiant bombast...
...play tells of a once-famous actor who is a down-at-heel drunk, of his loyal, long-suffering wife, and of a bright young director who gives him a shot at a comeback. With defensive lies, the husband convinces the director that the wife, who is his one chance of salvation, is the whole cause of his collapse. Seeing the wife as the enemy, the director mercilessly upbraids and insults her until he learns the truth (which includes his being in love with her). After that, the play dribbles on, nursing the sort of comeback that is trite...
...kindness of his Tory gaolers in permitting him to dine out once a week at the nearby Dog & Duck tavern only served to increase Whig Tooke's bitterness against them; he blamed the gout from which he suffered all the last years of his life on the claret drunk on these outings...
Naturals. In Minneapolis, police arrested Henry Bad Boy for being drunk & disorderly. In Delphos, Ohio, the Delphos Herald noted that twins had been born to Mr. & Mrs. Roger L. Ditto...