Word: bourbon
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...friends’ partying habits were only rambunctious by Business School standards. Many of his male classmates recall him being a drinker, but deny rumors of heavy alcohol and harder drug use; Hamilton James ’73 characterizes him as “a beer and bourbon sort...
...little girl could be given a pony ride by her aunt Kay, and the virus of horsewomanship enters her blood, and thereafter, every Saturday morning for the next 12 years, I must drive her to Foxcroft Stables and watch Emmett, the chain-smoking, bourbon-soaked stableman, help my child up onto Crimson Blaze, who gallops away, leaping over hedges and fences, and after 15 minutes, I need a powerful tranquilizer, the kind they'd administer to a horse. Or a little girl could pick up a hockey stick and sense its potential for violence, and thus 10 years later...
...hidden from prying eyes off Sukhumvit Soi 22, but Bangkok's Washington Square is a compact slice of Americana lost in space and time. If you're in the Thai capital and happen to need a fix of bourbon and Johnny Cash tunes?or a quiet spot to chow down fried chicken amid Jim Beam and Burma Shave signage?then you've found your mecca...
...square's Bourbon Street restaurant boasts an award-winning cajun-creole menu raved about by the U.S. consular corps?but everything else in the area is for the serious boozer or bold, cultural tourist. At the square's straining heart nestles the Texas Lone Staar (sic) Saloon, a favored hangout of grizzled Vietnam vets and supposed former CIA spooks. The bar's tag line, FOOD, WIMMIN, LIKKER, is painted across its windows, though the emphasis is almost exclusively on the latter...
...square and refer to themselves as "Squaronians." Over the years, they have included the locally celebrated Mekhong Kurt, Generous George, Speedo Keith and a host of other larger-than-life characters, some of whom have been bouncing around Bangkok for decades. After more than a few fingers of bourbon, Squaronians delight in chewing the fat under the Texas Aggie flag and the moth-eaten Cape buffalo head that?alongside yellowed Waylon Jennings and Kitty Wells record covers?grace the bar's wood-paneled walls. They'll wax nostalgic over fortunes made and squandered, over women loved and comrades lost. They...