Word: bourbonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resolution to a vote of confidence. This meant that, if the measure was voted down, not only would the government fall but the Assembly itself might be dissolved. The Deputies were properly horrified at the prospect of being prematurely ousted from their red plush seats in the Palais Bourbon...
Ogden Minton Pleissner seems born to the tweed. He has the cool eyes and calm hands of the sportsman, and he puffs a pipe as if it were part of himself. Duck, trout and partridge are Pleissner's meat; bourbon-on-the-rocks is his drink. He is equally at home in the uplands of Wyoming, in the Vermont hills, where he mainly vacations nowadays-and in his Manhattan studio. When Pleissner is not hunting or fishing, he paints pictures of a highly successful kind. This week 24 of his latest, including the watercolors opposite, went on view...
...Uvalde, Texas, former Vice President John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner, 84, who was once denounced by Labor Boss John L. Lewis as "a whisky-drinking, poker-playing, evil old man," had his picture taken as he played a wicked game of solitaire without a poker chip or drop of bourbon-and-branch water in sight...
...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...