Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board of Directors of one of the large Irish Free State distilleries, and one of the Board of Directors of another Irish Free State distillery, who incidentally are the largest Pot Still distillers in the world, I would like to state that there is no unbiased whiskey expert in the world who will agree with the latter statement, and that there is no Irishman in Ireland who will agree with the former. In the first place, it might interest you to know that in the Irish Free State 95% of the whiskey sold is of Irish Free State origin...
...actual quality is concerned, the water in Ireland is equally as good for the purpose of distillation of whiskies as anywhere else. . . . Any whiskey expert in the United States of America will confirm this statement...
...brown uniform," cried Colonel Roehm, "is completely unsuitable as a field uniform. It offers no protection against inclemency of the weather. I don't believe that an unprejudiced military expert of any army in the world could honestly designate the brown uniform as one practical for war. . . . I deny that the Storm Troops can be regarded as a military force! . . . Today almost the entire youth of England, France, Italy, the United States, Poland and Russia are not only clothed in uniforms which correspond to the respective Army uniforms in cut, but they are openly being trained by active...
...exceptions. So are seats. Bookings are bigger than the New York managers expected. Lily Pons had to turn down 40 dates. Lawrence Tibbett has 51; Kreisler and Rachmaninoff, 33 each; Yehudi Menuhin, 28 (all his parents will let him play); Heifetz, 26, Zimbalist, Harold Bauer and Gabrilowitsch, expert musicians whose box-office power has never been sensational, have in the neighborhood of 30. Nathan Milstein has 33; Nelson Eddy, 37; Rose Bampton, 40. Cancellations were last year's bugaboo. A local manager would engage an artist and then be unable to sell enough seats to meet...
...Laura West Perelman; Courtney Burr, producer) is a glib notation on the way some U. S. citizens, who live year-round in Paris, drink, wisecrack, pose and suffer. A tall, indolent young writer (Fred Keating) vaguely wishes he could afford to marry a striding, firm-chinned Paris fashion expert with a dazzling smile (Hope Williams). He is reduced to living off commissions from Paris stores to which he steers rich U. S. girls, finally resigns himself to the idea of marrying one. With laconic bitterness Hope Williams counters by encouraging a rich New York suburbanite. Between rough sentiment, brandies, wisecracks...