Word: scotch
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...pass. We produce as good woolens as any-every bit as good as those of Scotland ... I do not drink whisky and I am not a judge of it, but I am told that Irish whisky is as good as any in the world-every bit as good as Scotch...
...jumped Britain's Alfred Robens with a suggestion to Assembly President François de Menthon: "Representatives will find themselves in great difficulty in determining which is better-Scotch whisky or Irish whisky.* Could you use your presidential influence to get both countries to send a case of their product to each representative so that we might have our views properly defined when we meet next time...
Scotland took the hint. From Edinburgh the Scotch Whisky Association dispatched twelve bottles of "genuine Scotch whisky" to Representative Boothby. Dublin's Irish whisky distillers sent two cases of its finest to Representative Boland. Asked to preside over the High Authority of a European Whisky Pool, Boothby eagerly accepted. There will be further (informal) deliberations just as soon as the stuff arrives in Strasbourg...
...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...
...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...