Word: dewar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carnegie used to order Dewar's Scotch whiskey in 50 or 60-gallon casks. Reporters, touring the wine cellar, found pigeonholes marked Sparkling Moselle, Champagne, and Marsala, now empty. The wine bottles, like the era, were long since gone. Looking back, that past day now seemed like an era of happy irresponsibility, when no man had to account for his riches-though, like Carnegie, some of the wealthy, e.g., Andrew Mellon, John D. Rockefeller and Julius Rosenwald, had indeed accounted for theirs in handsome gifts to charity, art and education. Ever since the Widow Carnegie died in 1946 (Carnegie...
Owner John ("Lucky") Dewar, the whiskey magnate, watched through high-powered binoculars as Richards rode Tudor Minstrel three miles over the downs. London bookies, assuming that Richards will ride him (though he cagily hasn't said so yet), backed Tudor Minstrel's Derby odds down almost to even money. Wonder Horse Tudor Minstrel, a three-year-old, has never been beaten in the six times he has raced, and Richards has ridden him every time...
...decision. This week 6,500 fans gasped and groaned through the play off. Within the regulation 90 minutes the Hispanos finally proved their superiority, 3-to-2. To the Hispanos went the National Challenge Cup, put up in 1912 by Scotland's late, great Sir Thomas Robert Dewar (whiskey), while on a visit...