Word: bourbonized
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Alcoholic beverages are given more than any other gift, but tastes are becoming sophisticated. Where once the gift was a predictably expensive bottle of Scotch or bourbon, this year it is more likely to be a bottle or case of Chateau Haut-Brion or -Chateau La-fite-Rothschild. Wines have increased in a decade from 10% of Christmas orders to 35%, according to Samuel...
...Charlotte, she will be able to tend her rose garden, aided by her husband, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, 71. A descendant of France's Sun King Louis XIV (1643-1715), the prince long ago stopped gambling with the family fortune and in old age has turned dutiful and thoroughly bourgeois-in fact, Luxembourgeois...
...before it turns sweet. The cowardly hero (James Garner) is a fat cat who finds that military life in London in the days before D-day is just his bowl of cream. While millions of Britons quenu up for rations, the hero inhabits an Eden teeming with rivers of bourbon,sierras of sirloin and herds of gorgous girls who will do almost anything for a Hershey bar. Happily, there is a serpent in this paradise: an admiral (Melvyn Douglas) more concerned about congressional hearings ("They're tryin' to scrap the Navy!") than he is about the Germans...
Turnabout is fair play, decided bearded New Orleans Jazzman Al Hint, 41. He had cut a disk with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall, so this time it was Conductor Arthur Fiedler, 69, guesting it high on the revolving stage of Hirt's Bourbon Street hangout. "Where are the other 90 musicians?" Fiedler began, raising his baton, whereupon the six-man combo beat him to the beat by hurtling into Trumpeter's Lullaby. "We only have one rule," Al explained kindly. "The one who finishes first gets to play the ending." Since Fiedler had never really started...
...Justice Black was indeed a teetotaler until the age of 65, but now drinks an occasional "orange bourbon": Virginia Gentleman and orange juice on the rocks...