Word: bourbonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cops & Robbers. Police detectives practice their profession on the networks only a few hours a week; it is the civilian shamus who lays down by far the heaviest barrage. At least 15 of the Private Eyes now visible have survived other seasons; the four newcomers-Staccato, Philip Marlowe, Bourbon Street Beat, Hawaiian Eye-came on behind a resounding drum roll of publicity. On the ABC network alone there are twelve detective shows, three of them back-to-back on Friday nights...
...court-Louis XIII was her uncle, Louis XIV her first cousin-the lady left footnotes in the sands of time. Biographer V. (for Victoria Mary) Sackville-West, 67, has written a witty, informal, entertaining book about the bedeviled woman who was known not by her titles, but with simple Bourbon haughtiness as plain Mademoiselle...
Gentlemen Don't Wait. Biographer West (the wife of British Historian-Diplomat Harold Nicolson) has skillfully woven Mademoiselle's figure, with her private ardors and ironies, into the larger tapestry of the history, manners, and morals of Bourbon France. Contemporary readers are likely to be more startled by the manners than the morals. The Queen's own gentleman-in-waiting thought nothing of dropping the royal hand for a moment "pour alter pisser contre la tapis-serie." Garbage filled the rank Parisian streets, but the stench of the dandies at court was almost as overpowering. The plumed...
...checkup, startled a crowd of onlookers by relieving himself on the carpet of the hallway outside his Hotel Roosevelt suite. Then he grumpily submitted to an electrocardiogram (diagnosis: "He's in bad shape''), ordered some natty new clothes, received redheaded Blaze Starr, his favorite Bourbon Street stripteaser. at 2:30 a.m., later dashed off to Baton Rouge...
Circus Minimus. Bill's clients, mainly young English, Australian and American couples, listen while he reminisces about how he introduced the late Sultan of Johore to the sweet mysteries of bourbon whisky, nod politely when Bill pontificates about modern pop music. Rock 'n' roll and all that jazz, he says, are "just a rehash of the old stuff, what used to be the Texas Tommy, the Bunny Hug and the Grizzly Bear...