Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marriage Laws. Oregon voted to require medical examinations for marriage license applicants. Maryland prescribed a 48-hour interval between licensing and ceremony to scotch its fly-by-night marriage racket at Elkton...
...Stewart McDonald, the Administrator of Federal Housing . . . has just returned from London and Paris, where he turned his Scotch soul loose on tweeds. . . . His new little 'café au lait' number is becoming, and brings out the fine, lovely quality of his camellia-like complexion. . . . I'm sending 'Eve's Apple' to certain people, so, Stewie, when you get home tonight, you'll find it waiting...
When Harvard men hit the bottle, its apt to contain either Scotch or that old demon Rum, according to the liquor interests in Harvard Square and vicinity, which comprise an industry closely rivaling the tutoring schools in extent...
...general consensus of opinion in an informal survey conducted yesterday was that after Scotch and Rum, wine-dealer the popular beverage. One wine-dealer growled, "What Harvard guys want, I haven't got: Wheeskey...
...voyages was that of adventurous young Leif Ericsson ("Leif the Lucky") who started from Norway to Greenland in 1000 A.D., but-according to Historian William Hovgaard-"was driven far to the southwest, and finally made land on the coast of America, probably near Cape Cod. Leif sent out two Scotch runners to explore the country, and these men brought back grapes and some wheat-like grasses." Leif called his new country Vineland. Next year he sailed west again from Greenland, passed "Helluland" (probably Baffin Land), "Markland" (probably Nova Scotia), and came again to Vineland where he collected a great cargo...