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...have been established since the XVII century as wine merchants, and at the present time are acting as wine merchants to the royal household of England. They produce such well known brands as "Cutty Sark" and "St. James's Blend" Scotch Whiskies, and are famous for their "London Gin...
...kitchenette adjoining the room was littered with gin and whiskey bottles. On the table was a half-eaten angel cake. On the floor of the room were some of Kelly's sawed-off machine guns, weapons he had learned to use after listening to the tales of oldtime racketeers in Leavenworth Penitentiary. In another room the officers found Mrs. Kelly, 29, disguised in a red wig, her face bearing the telltale scar of a blow her husband once gave her. "We've been celebrating our third anniversary," she explained. "A swell celebration! Just swell...
...cellars from Manhattan to San Francisco. Hard hit by the loss of this profitable trade, they expanded their grocery and restaurant business in the last decade, but at the first hint of repeal more than a year ago President Gordon Stewart began to renew his European contracts. Their gin is Booth's High & Dry, their Scotch Sanderson's Vat 69, their champagne Heidsieck's Monopole, their sherries, ports and Madeiras John Harvey & Sons'. When the Schulte interests sold Overholt and Large distilleries to National Distillers last spring. Park & Tilford received a big slice of the cash...
Distillers Co., Ltd., Britain's monster whiskey trust, has kept U. S. liquormen in a dither all summer. Its dozens of brands include most of the best known Scotch whiskeys and the world's leading gin-Gordon's. Like Bacardi, Johnny Walker, John Haig, White Horse, Dewar's, etc. are probably more widely known in the U. S. today (through faked labels) than they were before Prohibition. Two D.C.L. representatives came to Manhattan early last spring, spent several months and thousands of dollars on surveys of potential business. Wined & dined by nearly every U. S. liquorman...
Wine is the gentleman's drink, and the Senior will drink it, till he is anaesthetized sufficiently for the gin. Then, perhaps, he will speak, to a trusted fellow, of the one short year before he gets out of the damned place, God-willing, graduates...