Word: dewar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Porter v. Dewar...
Readers of TIME will enjoy this characteristic bit of repartee attributed to the "venerable Baron Dewar, who claims that whiskey is his muse...
...sure," came the adroit reply, "And mine is Dewar-Dewar,-with a siphon...
Crossing the channel to Britain, one finds as dean of the distilling peers the venerable Baron Dewar. His whiskeys fire throttles on five continents. About him there is no paradox, no equivocation. To the core of his very liver Lord Dewar is a practicing and preaching wet. He claims that whiskey is his Muse. Without her stimulus the Noble Lord believes he never could have produced his famed "Dewarisms." Many persons consider this fact a most powerful argument against spirits. Observers may judge for themselves from sample "Dewarisms" from the latest batch proudly released by Baron Dewar...
...Royal Oak affair (TIME, March 26 to April 16) climaxed in the demotion of her Captain, Kenneth G. B. Dewar, and her Commander Henry M. Daniel, because they had rebuked their superior Admiral, contrary to the rules of discipline, for using "vile and insulting language." Commander Daniel capitalized his notoriety by becoming a highly paid feature writer for the London Daily Mail. Captain Dewar, no capitalizer, suffered his demotion silently until last week, when he was promoted to be captain of the battle cruiser Tiger, Public sympathy and the potency of the press are responsible for Captain Dewar...