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Research traces the milkshake metaphor to Albert Fall’s Teapot Dome testimony, the adjacent No Country fire disruption, difficult financing, Day-Lewis’s laborer letters, Greystone Mansion, and Edward Doheny parallels.
In the discussion (4)
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- PTA paraphrased the milkshake metaphor from a congressional investigation of Albert Fall.
- Smoke from this production entered No Country shots nearby.
- Day-Lewis studied period laborers’ letters and photographs.
- The mansion belonged to Doheny, whose life overlaps Daniel in Wisconsin, Kansas, mining, oil, Teapot Dome, and possible family scandal.