Word: drunkard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn was no eccentric, no drunkard, no lecher, no misanthrope, no hermit, no seeker after scientific truth. He simply loved to paint. He also loved mankind and knew it as few painters have ever known it. He liked money and what money bought; he knew everybody in Amsterdam from the famed Burgomaster Jan Six to his Amsterdam Ghetto neighbors, the Portuguese Jews, and the tramps and prostitutes along the spotless city's spotty waterfront. He spent most of his life turning out an amazing total of paintings, etchings and drawings, most of them first rate...
Catherine was the second of three daughters; her mother was a long-suffering woman who shared her daughters' adoration for their father, a wife-beating drunkard who had brought back a wooden leg from the war. As the children grew up, the eldest became a zealous partner in her father's milk business, but the two younger ones, Catherine and Angele, each dreamed of the boy who was to marry her some day. At last he came, disguised as an old toymaker. Thereafter he appeared in various guises, but he finally turned out to be the long-lost...
...Chicago, to prove her divorce contention that her husband was an habitual drunkard, Mrs. Madeline McCarthy produced in court a photograph of Mr. McCarthy snoring in a bathtub. "Unfair," said Mr. McCarthy...
With whiskers and side-burns flying merrily in the breeze that tear-jerking, soul-saving mellerdramer of the roaring forties, "The Drunkard" mounts the D. U. stage in handsome form. With a full cast of skilled performers the play blossoms forth in all its noble, rib-tickling splendor, a truly hilarious bit of eighteenth century Americana. Backed by a variety of well designed stage settings the drama runs its solid simple course. The handsome Yale collegian (Robert Reed) meets the fair maiden and before the first act is out they have settled down in the pretty (but mortgaged) cottage...
Five members of the cast of "The Drunkard," a dramatic presentation planned by the D.U. Fraternity, are listed among the present victims. The members have expressed their opinion that the calibre of the performance will be substantially raised by their absence...