Word: bourbon
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Poujade's Deputies, no longer swaggering on the hustings, filed almost meekly into the strange surroundings of the Palais Bourbon. But the Poujadist symbol, an enameled red cock crowing, flared from every lapel. And the Poujadists quickly got involved in the Assembly's first dispute: an attempt to unseat four Poujadists on charges of electoral violations...
...digging for stories-as when he broke, in effect, the state's case against Virginia Carroll in the shooting of Politician William F. Meade (TIME, April 7, 1952). He is usually home in suburban Bryn Mawr by about 7 p.m. for his ceremonial "B and B" (Brahms and bourbon). The Brahms comes from an elaborate hi-fi set and, during the music, Selby spends an hour or so reading his mail. Selby's three children have made occasional appearances on his television show, usually as a background audience, munching hot dogs and potato chips, washed down with milk...
...gesture resembling the party salute - to illustrate the song's last line: "That's where the tall corn grows!" Later the Russians learned the words, sang it themselves with gestures (but no clenched fist). At a cocktail party they passed up vodka, instead tried Scotch and bourbon highballs. Scoffed one of them: "This stuff could not down...
...many of the newly rich-instruct their servants to serve hard liquor with every course." As Editor Deshais hoped, bluebloods kicked up a rumpus over her picture of them as boozebloods. Commented clubwoman Mrs. Earl Kribben, whose husband is a Marshall Field vice president: "Drinking Scotch or bourbon with the main course would be like going to a dinner party in your bathing suit. Some of your statistics sound so frantic. You must be talking about people I just don't know." But Socialite Ronald Boardman, vice president of the City National Bank & Trust Co., gave some support...
...Tennessean news columns, as distinctively flavored as Tennessee sour mash bourbon, heavy local coverage is liberally laced with national and international news and brightly written features. Evans, who always considered reporting "the most important and best job on a newspaper," was never happier than when his staffers were digging up a political exposé or spicy feature, such as the discovery of Nashville Heir Tom Buntin in Texas 22 years after he vanished with his secretary...