Word: rotgut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pure George Bellows-a seedy Bowery-type bar in the year 1912, littered with slumped and sleeping drunken bums.* Soaks of all descriptions-a Harvard man, a British infantry captain, a Boer War correspondent, a Negro gambler, an unbadged police lieutenant, a disillusioned anarchist-they had been reduced by rotgut to creatures of one baggy shape. What kept them hanging by a claw to life was the kindness of the drunken-bum saloonkeeper (finely played by Dudley Digges), and their pipe dreams, their mumbling that tomorrow would turn up a winning card or bring forth a better...
Major General Schwengel's plan, which had the industry's blessing, sounded dazzlingly simple, and fine for the U.S. stomach, which has lately been assaulted by more & more rotgut.* The plan: that U.S. distillers should buy 50,000,000 gallons of Cuban cane alcohol at 80? a gal. They would resell this to the Government at 50? a gal. in exchange for permission to withdraw 35,000,000 gal. of good U.S. grain alcohol at 90? a gal. and to turn it into good U.S. prewar-style potables. This was supposed 1) to add at least...
...field is in the center of a 100-mile-square dry area. Translated into practical terms, this means the Army drinks $3-a-pint rotgut...
...young friend is a sergeant pilot-making $144 a month. He can afford the bootleg liquor. So he's not learning to drink beer or good whiskey on his nights off-but to drink rotgut straight. As he told me this morning, amid groans, "the stuff tastes so terrible, the only thing you can do is to get drunk as quick as possible so you can't taste...
...produced, the play is pretty much old rotgut in a new bottle. Subtitled See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have, the show has been given a special musical score, some vaudeville trimmings, considerable entr'activity. A good-looking girl in a slinky dress perches for the evening atop a piano, and between scenes, leads the boys in such old favorites as The Old Gray Mare, The Bowery...