Word: drunkards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Dabney, the report that Jefferson had fathered the children was spread in a newspaper article in 1802 by one James T. Callender, whom Dabney described as "a vicious unscrupulous drunkard" who was angry at President Jefferson for refusing to appoint him postmaster at Richmond. An Ohio newspaper revived this charge in 1873, citing what Dabney termed the "testimony of two aged blacks." Historian Malone called the testimony a contrived bit of "abolitionist propaganda...
...drug fiend, I'm not a drunkard, but I am the laziest man I ever met," joked Artur Rubinstein just a few days before he gave a marathon concert that included two piano concertos. On his 88th birthday, the last of the great romantics on or off the keyboard celebrated with his children and grandchildren and also gave an elfish performance for some 40 friends gathered to toast him in Manhattan. RCA presented him with a chocolate piano with 88 keys. Purring at the adulation, and twinkling much the way he must have in Paris when he was interrupted...
...House. With all of the glitter and gold, pathos and drama, tragedy and comedy that have enveloped the events of the past month, the presidency has taken on a color that in the past was found only in places such as bars and brothels. The deep wrinkles of a drunkard's face, the foul language of a brawny bartender, the sad eyes of a wasted whore are replaced by the president's level gaze, by the only glimmer from the chandeliers in the inaugural hall, by Martin Lefkowitz as the munches on a chicken wing in a park outside...
...Drunkard is a very old musical play about alcohol and the wages of sin, and it's being produced at the 369 School for the Performing Arts up in Somerville. The play was written in the 1840s, but apparently got changed by bits and pieces over the years. With some excellent background work, the people at 369 have gone a long way to restoring the piece to its original condition. The music for the play is lost, but the show's producers have come up with a score that is purportedly true to its source. Weekend performances begin...
...Drunkard is supposedly the longest running show in the history of the universe, beating out the Aurora Borealis by three and a half days. Astronomers may quibble with this fact, but the play, written in 1843, is continuing its run at Somerville's Washington St. Opera House in any event. It's all about a man who lives somewhere to the north of Cambridge going into Boston and getting drunk, thus causing all sorts of problems for himself. There's a moral here somewhere, but it's probably gotten lost over the past 131 years. P.T. Barnum used to lead...