Word: drunkards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Reorganized Mormons, still seething, decided to bring libel suits against Novelist Fisher and his publishers. Author Fisher was unperturbed. "Joseph Smith has been called epileptic, fraud, drunkard, thief, libertine and murderer," said he. "I have made him a great and lovable man and not an impostor. . . ." He added that a round dozen people had written him that they had been converted to Mormonism by reading his novel...
...genius, sexual fever as a product of Mississippi Valley boredom, acute alcoholism. The Coward, well-worn in plot and people, is psychologically good & scary; The Defective is rather sketched than brought off. The Bad Girl describes provincial ennui and sexual despair with a good deal of intensity. The Drunkard, the best thing in the book, is a scalding and ghastly story of speak-easy newswriters, a maladjusted comedian. If uneven Author Ryan ever tightens the whole of his talent to that pitch, he will have justified his bold ambitions...
...went by an Easter-Parade cutaway-dummy representing conformity, and a deadpan gal named Destiny. He tried to change the world with love (represented by Minsky models in black lace panties), poetry, music, facts and statistics, common labor. He pleaded with all sorts-a dope-fiend radical, a religious drunkard, a doting old man with a beard and a penchant for poetry, followed by a girl representing his sickness, a priest who stood for Capitalism, a boy with a fever of 105°. They all made the Goof cry: "I want to resign." But at the moment when...