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Word: scotches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweet & Young. To her practiced eye, the debutante party is a poor pitch. The boys from Harvard, Yale and Princeton who throng the stag line and trace the source of champagne and Scotch to the pantry with the single-minded cunning of a parched mongoose, are not what she is looking for. Said Joanne: "I don't really like college boys. I know what they are going to say and how they think. They're so silly, and don't know how to drink." Some of the college boys seemed to share her indifference. Said a Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Wise Beyond Years | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Orson's fascination with the echoes of his own voice on the sound track (a hangover from Citizen Kane) sometimes makes his Macbeth resemble an unmannerly uproar in a coal mine. The on-again-off-again use of a Scotch burr by some of the actors, including the star, does not help; but the production's main fault is that Welles and his leading lady (Jeanette Nolan) play their roles, for most of 95 minutes, at the top of their lungs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

About 45,000 people will have a dash of Scotch before the Dartmouth game Saturday, when Leigh Cross '51, sole bagpiper in the University Band makes his initial appearance of the year on the Stadium turf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wi' a Hundred Pipers . . . | 10/22/1948 | See Source »

...been nursing thousands of plants, arranged in West Princes Street Gardens, to spell out in brilliant flowers the names of Chopin, Mozart and Beethoven. On flag-festooned streets, shops were chock-full of tartans and souvenirs. And Edinburgh's crammed hotels had wangled enough extra rations of Scotch for more than a wee drap o' that for everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Wee Drap o' Music | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...mile-by-mile description of the road over the Tuscarora Mountains to Chambersburg and the British military base at Carlisle; a dozen scenes of frontier crowds praying and dancing and singing; a spate of Irish and Scotch dialects; a history of the settlements, Indian wars and politics of western Pennsylvania; a long, rapturous recipe for duck soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reading Book | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

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