Word: raffishly
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...Like a raffish, somewhat questionable stranger at a bar, this raffish, somewhat questionable book glibly rattles off all sorts of odd and fascinating facts about the manufacture and use of liquor. The word "spirits" was originally applied to the alcohol vapor created during the distillation process. The "proof" of any whisky is equal to double the amount of alcohol it contains; 100 proof means 50% alcohol by volume, the other half being distilled water, coloring and the like. "Proof" originally was a place where gunpowder was tested. Early distillers adopted the term, because they used powder to gauge the strength...
...HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA. Based on Richard Hughes's classic novel about the corruptive power of young innocents, this lively adventure film follows seven captive children as they hasten the ruin of a dissolute pirate captain (Anthony Quinn) and his raffish crew...
...HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA. Based on Richard Hughes's classic novel about the corruptive power of young innocents, this lively adventure film follows seven captive children as they hasten the ruin of a dissolute pirate captain (Anthony Quinn) and his raffish crew...
...children, a quintet of improper Victorians who, along with two Creole friends, are packed off from Jamaica to be properly educated in England. En route they are inadvertently abducted when their ship is hijacked and they wander aboard the pirate vessel, manned by a dissolute captain (Anthony Quinn), his raffish mate (James Coburn) and a crew of inept, superstitious ruffians...
...Throw Them Out." CBS Chairman William S. Paley had not even gaveled his overflow audience to order in Manhattan before a woman stockholder in red-feathered hat and raffish earrings got up to make a loud complaint: she had, she said, been issued a subpoena to keep quiet at the meeting. (Subpoenas are not issued for such purposes, and CBS said it had sought no order against her.) When he could finally get a word in, Paley proceeded to the meeting's business, which included the abrupt firing two months ago of CBS-TV President James T. Aubrey...