Word: linlithgow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bottle was filled with what 18th century wine tasters called "milk punch," because along with sugar, fruit, brandy and other spirits, some milk was added. This particular batch, which later in the day brought $28 the half-bottle, had been concocted by the ancestors of the Marquess of Linlithgow in 1750, and had been lying in the family's cellars ever since...
Lady Diana has a curious way of making real people seem like Waugh characters,* as she does in the cinematic glimpse of life in the Viceregal Lodge at Simla, where the "brontosaurian" viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, maintained a dur-barlike protocol in the last days of the British raj. The edge was taken off the formality by the sight of His Excellency sidling about the vast building clutching his "catty" (catapult) for shooting crows on the rooftop...