Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conduct his life. The effect of this legacy becomes apparent when he takes a bride. So completely impersonal is he toward her that it begins to seem as if he had never been apprised of a husband's obligations. There is a quarrel, but several shots of Scotch suffice to break the mother-fixation and the play ends with enlightenment in the offing. There is a great deal to be said for the humorous treatment of modern psychology. But here the humor is not half so subtle as the pathological dilemma used as its basis. Jefferson de Angelis is amusing...
Once there were two Scotchmen, or rather a Scotchman and a Scotch woman: now there is George C. MacKinnon. George has a nerve of iron when the returns are in gold or silver. He tells, among many stories of adventure for profit. of how he spent a morning in a cage of twenty tigers just to win a small bet. According to him these beasts had a manslaughter record which would send a gang of Chicago handiest to Sing for life. Among other things, having killed many into whose charge they had been put including one very beautiful and famous...
Prices quoted per standard bottle: gin $1; port or sherry $1.50; brandy $3; Scotch $4; rye $6; creme de cacoa $2; kiimmel $3; benedictine $5; Cointreau $5 -most of these in bottles identifiable at a glance as fakes, but a few magnificent imitations. "I'm telling you straight now, Friend, this what we call Spanish port is California, see? Your money back on anything you don't like...
Beyond the Italians were the Japanese, with onetime Prime Minister Reijiro Wakatsuki, perfectly alert and cold sober, despite his potions the night before of Scotch whiskey and Japanese saké. Of the latter beverage his excellency brought from Japan precisely 20 casks...
Most startling 1930 innovations are the Cord and Ruxton front drive cars which stand barely five feet high. Some models of the Willys-Knight are painted partly to resemble Scotch plaid; radiator caps are lower, some being merely dummies. One dummy cap is fashioned like a gunsight, perhaps to perfect the driver's aim. Some cars (Franklin, Packard, Graham) have abandoned ventilating slits in the hood and substituted small doors. The Pierce-Arrow, tenaciously traditional, retains its headlights on the fenders...