Word: bourbon
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...wager a bottle of good bourbon that 4-3-2 is also a winning combination...
...other guy to make the first move, I remove even numbers of matches until he loses-almost always-unless he is playing the same rules." Winning the game is good for a free drink in most bars; in some spots matches are dispensed with, and shot-glasses of bourbon are used as pawns, each being downed as it is removed. This frequently results in the players' being removed also before the game is finished...
...Like Myself." It is a plea from a driven, riven man-although outwardly Williams does not seem that way. He has ready good humor and an explosive laugh. His drawl is as smooth as the good bourbon with which it is usually enriched. He stands 5 ft. 6 in., weighs 155 lbs., and like most Americans worries about his weight. He is darkly good-looking, and might in another era have passed for a Mississippi riverboat gambler...
...strain of meeting people and facing the world, he relies partly on cigarettes (two packs a day), but mostly on drink and pills. A trifle defensively, Williams puts his intake of liquor at half of a fifth a day. "It's more like half a fifth of bourbon and half a fifth of vodka," says a friend. Williams at times takes half a Dexamyl to "pep up," 1½ Seconals a day "to smooth things over," and two Miltowns with Scotch to go to sleep...
...behalf of the bourbon drinkers of America I protest. Is this spiritless, chalky liquid more worthy of the presidential accolade than my beloved bourbon-or wine, or beer, or even sake...