Word: bourbonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tastes: Rolls his own cigarettes, likes bourbon (two drinks), underwater spear fishing, fox-hunting and polo...
James Cagney, an ex-reporter philosophizing over a half-drained glass of bourbon, sets the tone...
...friend. The job proves mostly a matter of getting the nephew out of gangsters' clutches. The film's crude mixture of social problem and underworld formula is epitomized in the climax: a plug-ugly points a gun at Cagney and orders him to take a slug of bourbon...
...alcohol, would cure almost everything. He also has a corps of gagsters turning out jingles and jokes insinuating that Hadacol is an aphrodisiac. In dry southern states, Hadacol has another virtue; its 24-proof alcoholic content makes it just the thing for binges. Medicine Man LeBlanc, who prefers straight bourbon himself, can hardly understand this last fact because, he says, Hadacol "tastes so bad I don't see how anybody could drink enough to get high...
Setback. Politicians who got close to him during that spell were somewhat astonished at what they saw. Dulles turned out to be a man who preferred bourbon, who had an unexpected, thunderous guffaw, and who relished campaigning. His easy manner belied the crack inevitably attached to his name: "dull, duller, Dulles." He refused to talk down. He went from town to town, a slouched figure in an upturned soft hat, looking more like a threadbare professor than a Wall Street lawyer. But he lost to one of New York's great votegetters, four-term Governor Herbert Lehman. Not only...