Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dining room, a bar for both sexes, movies after midnight, staterooms for spending the night and a miniature reproduction of the Statue of Liberty are provided. With the exception of the ballroom and the Statue of Liberty, the use of everything costs extra. The prices for drinks include: Scotch highball, $1 Dry gin rickey, $1.50 Silver fizz, $1.50 Holland gin drinks, $2 Sloe gin buck, $2 Champagne, $15 a qt. Sparkling Burgundy, $20 a qt. Rye highball, $2 Mint julep...
...When the Scotch say that a man has his plate full, they mean that his capacity is taxed to the limit. James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister and His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, had his plate full last week...
...that the Russians were reported hostile to the surrendering of confiscated British property, while the British were just as hostile to the Russians' keeping it. At no time was it admitted, however, by the British Foreign Office that all hope was lost, a fact which suggested a little Scotch stratagem on the part of Premier MacDonald to force the hands of the Russians...
...attack upon the defense." -Chicago Tribune. " There is one bootlegger in Oakland who will think twice hereafter before he calls prospective customers on the telephone. " Chief McSorley answered his private telephone yesterday and was dumbfounded when a voice asked if he wanted those 'two cases of real, old Scotch today.' " 'This is the Chief of Police.' " 'Suffering cats! I've been double-crossed again,' the man on the telephone cried savagely, as he slammed up the receiver." - San Francisco Chronicle...
...annum), inventor of Oscar Sauce; with his wife for a three-months' tour in Europe?his first vacation after 41 years of uninterrupted work in the U. S.; David Warfield; William J. Burns; 52 Boy Scouts; "Pussyfoot" Johnson to convince the Moslems, the Indians and the Ceylonese that drinking Scotch whiskey is wrong...