Word: bourbonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...struggle against Pan American for world air routes will ultimately be settled by the President. The President paid no heed either to the unfriendly weather or to Clifford's awkward status. He had paper work to do: it involved clubs, hearts, spades & diamonds and an occasional nip of bourbon & branch water. After all, early-rising Harry Truman could sleep in the morning at Key West-and sometimes he did, as late as 8 o'clock...
...evening last October Yvette went to a cocktail party near Frankfurt with her husband, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Andrew Madsen. They drank bourbon-and-Coke, played "Pass the Kleenex,"*and Yvette twitted her Georgia-born host, another U.S. officer, on his Dixie drawl. "O.K.," responded the airman good-naturedly, "how do you say it in Brook-lynese?" Sensitive Yvette slapped the joker full in the face and demanded that her husband take her home immediately. Andy Madsen, a Californian, was too busy laughing to pay much attention. He tossed her the keys to the family car, and Yvette stormed...
...wash that Fascist smell off the king, so he can pass under the noses of the U.S. public. But even for Slade the smell is too strong. He betrays the king in the interests of dear old democracy, but not before he has downed gallons of the royal bourbon, and has had to fend off ardent passes from the royal mistress...
There are many different Mr. Eliots-the shy and the friendly, the sad and the serene and the Mr. Eliot who expresses complex thoughts in complex (if catchy) rhythms. There is even a human Mr. Eliot who loves Bourbon and the Bible, both of which he used to keep on his night table (in austerity England he settles for pink...
...food, drink and women. He left just enough money for beautiful Mrs. Richardson to keep the fine old house and her social prestige, and to send young Percy and Byron to the University of Virginia. While Jim piled up a fortune in oil, handsome Percy Richardson went in for bourbon, Negro women, homosexuals and, finally, suicide. Byron was content to be a small-town lawyer and live in a cottage. Mrs. Richardson died of cancer, unreconciled to the fact that her daughter had deserted her class...