Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...author) become the storm centre of a three-sided feud in small Dunbury. The argument is of industrialists v. landed snobs v. common people-over which class shall have the use of the Market Hall. Abetted by a lot of old-fashioned plotting and comic incident and by a drunken representative of Old England At Its Best, the workers win, and every good person gets what he was after. Thus combined, Author Priestley's warm social anger and his famed, rather beefy affability make Let the People Sing a novel easy to disregard but hard to dislike...