Word: bourbonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stratosphere of world finance. He is an elegant dresser (Homburg from London's James Lock & Co., suits from Savile Row's Henry Poole), an amusing storyteller, a man of omnivorous tastes, who sums up his chief delights (besides Shakespeare) as "the four Bs-banking, baseball, Balzac and bourbon." As he makes his rounds, he speaks in an irretrievable Southern drawl, mixes so well that he charms people no matter how anti-banker or anti-American they are apt to be. Once, at a state dinner given by Marshal Tito, the conversation through interpreters was dragging badly when Tito...
...reunion with a rousing "Tiger, tiger, tiger, sis-boom-bah!" Then, starting out in Tokyo (where they lunched with onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Eikichi Araki, a Princeton graduate school student in 1923), the visitors set out to see Japan. Amidst a profusion of potent Japanese beer, sake, bourbon, Scotch and all manner of native dishes, they saw Fujiyama mantled in unseasonable snow, famed shrines and spas, one geisha dance so laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies: "If you can understand either it or the program notes, you're a better Japanese than...
States-General since 1789.*Peeling off coat, vest and tie, Poujade orated: "When delegates from every corner of France, backed by half a million Frenchmen, gather at the Porte de Versailles, Republican legality will no longer be at the Palais Bourbon but there where we are." At this heady vision of a new march on Paris, every provincial shopkeeper and artisan delegate cheered lustily...
...there are stereophonic sound effects to echo the dialogue. It usually sounds as though the man behind you is whistling in your ear. By far the most believable of unbelievable settings treats any physics major's imagination, and Robbie the Robot, who can produce 60 gallons of Kansas City Bourbon in one sitting, amuses everyone with his radio announcer's accent...
Died. Prince Alfonso of Bourbon, 14, younger son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan and brother of Prince Juan Carlos, Generalissimo Franco's hand-picked candidate for the Spanish throne; of a gunshot wound while cleaning a pistol in the game room of the family residence in exile; in Estoril, Portugal...