Word: rotgut
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...field is in the center of a 100-mile-square dry area. Translated into practical terms, this means the Army drinks $3-a-pint rotgut...
...produced, the play is pretty much old rotgut in a new bottle. Subtitled See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have, the show has been given a special musical score, some vaudeville trimmings, considerable entr'activity. A good-looking girl in a slinky dress perches for the evening atop a piano, and between scenes, leads the boys in such old favorites as The Old Gray Mare, The Bowery...
...were decent Irish Catholics, dwellers in a poor Chicago neighborhood. But they thought of themselves as citizens of no mean city. Young Studs took to his tough environment like an alley-cat to a garbage can-fought, smoked, played football in vacant lots, shot pool, went with whores, drank rotgut, occasionally made his confession. In his weaker moments Studs sometimes asked himself what the hell it was all about, even fell in love with a nice girl. But the nice girl married somebody else and Studs's musings never came to anything. By & large he was well content...