Word: bourbon
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...refer to the public trustee of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund [onetime Coal Mine Operator Josephine Roche], of eminent record, as a stooge of the undersigned is a contemptible insult, derogatory to the writer of your editorial. It exemplifies the innate philosophy of the Bourbon mind and the effeminate snobbishness of inbred aristocracy...
...Construction Tycoon Hal Hayes, who has a built-in bar in his Cadillac, plus faucets for Scotch, bourbon, champagne and beer in his home, proudly showed off his newest wrinkle: a heavy, green, living-room rug, which rolls, like a window blind in reverse, up a glass wall at the press of a button. Said Hayes: "At Hiroshima and Nagasaki, windows blew out and lots of people were killed by glass. [The rug] catches it. Since the rug is so heavy, it stops gamma rays and neutrons as well...
...glad you started the piece with Fiddlers Green. Skinny used to recite this to us sometimes, over a glass of "bourbon and creek-water," after another funny poem about the mechanized cavalry, Alowishius Gas N' Oil* ... I wish you could have seen him once as I did at a Hollywood party, after all the egomaniacs had pitched their latest promotion line, as he stood very straight and sang Should auld acquaintance be forgot with tears in his eyes, thinking of those men who died beside...
...have a drink. Want a Martini? Yes, a Martini and an oldfashioned. Give me a bourbon straight. Have another? Yes, another...
...state's entire electorate into at least the milder manifestations of apoplexy: the Vicksburg Chamber of Commerce not only claimed that the mint julep was originated in Mississippi, but that Kentuckians never heard of it until both the recipe and the mint had been transplanted there by a bourbon-drinking boatman. But though Kentucky's governor spoke softly, he did not fail to slip Mississippi a mickey...