Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alien Corn. In Glasgow, Scotland, the prosecutor winced and told the judge what Joseph McNelis had been selling as "pure Scotch": one part Highland dew, three parts Danish whisky, and a little brandy...
...important intangible asset is the character of Newfoundland's hardy people. Newfies (a term they use but do not much like) are nearly all natives; 98% were born on the island, mostly of English and Channel Island stock, with generous traces of Irish, Scotch and French. Isolated for centuries, their character tempered by wresting a living from their bleak island and the sea around it, the Newfies have developed into an independent, hardworking, happy breed. Their wit and individuality show strongly in their geographic names. Newfoundland places are called Happy Adventure, Come By Chance, Heart's Delight, Witless...
...Also bequeathed to Johns Hopkins: Lawyer Shriver's wine cellar (404 gallons, including 235 bottles of Scotch, 165 of champagne, 15 of pure alcohol, and one of Howard County applejack). Because of the difficulty of figuring out what the tax should be, the whole lot was destroyed by the Federal Alcohol Tax Unit...
...finance chairman in charge of fund raising. A man with a fixed aversion to physical exercise, Ruml has told his friends, "If you ever hear of me dropping dead on a tennis court, you'll know it was because I was crossing it on my way to a Scotch & soda." For four years chairman of the board of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., Ruml was chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank from 1941 to 1946. He is best known as the father of the pay-as-you-go tax plan. In 1942 Ruml began worrying...
Another suggested help to overhead and audience happiness: a bar in the theater. Said Cullman: "Half the delight of the London theater is getting a good Scotch that helps a bad show...