Word: mashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bubbling like a vat of mash, Boland retorted: "I cannot let that pass. We produce as good woolens as any-every bit as good as those of Scotland ... I do not drink whisky and I am not a judge of it, but I am told that Irish whisky is as good as any in the world-every bit as good as Scotch...
...Washington last week; if they would look in a spot in the Maryland woods thirty miles from the capital, they would find a big still. Three agents hustled to the spot. When they got close, they sniffed the telltale reek of fermenting *Background: portrait of Founder A. P. Giannini. mash. Led by their noses, they found a nice big still and vats that could hold 7,000 gallons of mash, enough to produce 240 gallons of high-proof moonshine a day. As the agents dynamited the still, one said: "I've never seen one this big before, even...
...only the great writers who trademark their work. Lesser authors, too, car. take the language in their bare hands and mash it into a pulp which is peculiarly their own. Thus, although many of Shakespeare's best lines might have been written by one or another of his contemporaries, no living writer can quite reproduce the "feel" of a characteristic line by Kathleen Winsor: "They stood together, his legs widespread"; "He swept the hair off her neck and put his mouth there"; "He smelt like weeds rotted in water." Even longer stretches of Winsor prose have that touch...
...been looking with distaste at people ever since he was brought from French Equatorial Africa as a puny, 11-lb. baby, Bamboo, now a quarter-ton, 6-ft. evil-tempered gorilla, celebrated his 25th anniversary of confinement with a "birthday cake" made of cod liver oil, peanut mash and oyster shell, with a watermelon for dessert. The anniversary also chalked up a record. Bamboo, whether he likes it or not, is the only gorilla ever to survive a quarter-century in captivity...
...average 22%) to the tax itself* While the Big Four distillers (Schenley, National, Seagram's and Hiram Walker) insist that they will maintain prices, smaller distillers have already begun to cut prices of straight whiskies. Sample: United Distillers has slashed its J. W. Dant bottled-in-bond sour-mash bourbon by 90? a fifth...