Word: bourbonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Circus Saints and Sinners monthly luncheon gag-fest in Manhattan, Vice President Alben Berkley cheerfully put on a cap & gown and gracefully accepted a few new "honorary" degrees, including a P.H.D. (for Poor Honest Democrat), a B.S. (for Bourbon & Soda), a D.D.T. (for Doing the Darndest for Truman...
...Hampshire, a cramped, L-shaped bedroom on the second floor of Manchester's Eagle Hotel was jammed and seething. Coats & hats were piled on the twin beds, and people were perching cheerfully on top of the coats & hats. Others helped themselves to the open bottles of Scotch, bourbon and rye on the dresser, or dug into the communal paper buckets of chop suey, chicken and egg rolls on the table. Looming above the pandemonium, with the air of a prophet who has just been slugged by a vigorous vision, was Candidate Estes Kefauver. He moved slowly through the throng...
...Cornered the bourbon market...
Shoes Without Spikes. Stevenson gets up about 7, is at his desk shortly after 9, and usually has lunch there on a tray. Before dinner, he likes a bourbon "cold toddy" (on the rocks, with a little sugar and water). After dinner, he often returns to his desk for several hours. The executive mansion is adequately staffed with servants, but none of them sleeps there. The only residents are Stevenson and one of his executive assistants, William McCormick Blair, wealthy Republican and cousin of the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick. On the nights when Bill Blair goes...
...starts out simply enough: "We are a pious people but a proud one too, aware of a noble lineage and a great lineage and a great inheritance... we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the martial cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?" He aswers his question: "Not by two-thirds...