Word: bourbonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confident Democrats having a high old time together, all 900 luncheon eaters ($28 a plate) at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, applauded joyously one day last week when Party Faithful Tallulah Bankhead, wrapping her "dahlings" in her bourbon drawl, breathed spite upon the opposition. "Dirt is too clean a word for him," she said of Vice President Richard Nixon. Fumbling for an exit bit, Tallu focused upon the seated form of Harry S. Truman, listed sharply in a maneuver designed to land in his lap but, defeated by his red-faced agility,* succeeded only in a bear hug. Bawled...
...colonial days, Kentuckians (then Virginians) with a whisky taste had trouble chasing away the demon rum. The rum-makers once put through a law boosting the legal price to $15 a half pint. The Bourbon County grand jury even indicted James Garrard, a Baptist minister who later became Governor of the state, for illegal whisky selling. But by 1789, tenacious Bourbon County distillers had finally given corn likker an old Kentucky home. Though ten years ago bourbon was only 13% of total domestic whisky sold, last year it was 47%. Last week bourbon reached another pinnacle: in nationwide newspaper...
...retirement as the President's chief of staff, the President named Adams' successor: Alabama's Wilton Burton Persons, 62, Adams' admiring but totally dissimilar deputy. With Persons in charge, said a White House wag, the difference would be like that between hard cider and mellow bourbon...
...course may bring something to some people, and the other about the St. Croix River. The St. Croix River must be a newsy place, for Richard Sommer has noticed a lot going on there and it is fun to read about it all. Thomas Whitebread writes amusingly of how bourbon may be put to good, if pragmatic, use in "The Use of Bourbon," which is all very well for them that can afford it and apparently he can't because it's clear poem. His other contribution, "Skeeter," seems a bit wordy but has some nice sounding words...
...Lions are the friendliest people." enthused Harvey ("They call me Cookie") Cook to his wife Harriett as they sipped bourbon and ginger ale in Chicago's Sherman Hotel last week. "Everybody has a name tag on him. You look and see the name and you greet him, say, 'How ya doin!' " Cook's extra big "Keep Smiling" button flashed gaily from his purple and gold vest; the 51-year-old utilities company employee from Beechview, Pa. considered how glad he was to be there, he and Harriett, hitting it off just great with 35,000 friendly...