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Word: scotches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authority close to the bride herself. "The princesses," she said, "naturally incline to follow traditional trends. If for any .reason one of them got the idea she'd like a skirt shorter or longer than was considered in the best taste, I am sure the Queen would scotch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Prothalamion | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Appalled by his parents' Scotch-Irish Presbyterianism, he soaked up the religious mysticism of Emanuel Sweden-borg.-Believing that God was within man, he was scornful. of the traditional figure of Jehovah: "Any mother who suckles her babe upon her own breast, any bitch in fact who litters her periodical brood of pups, presents to my imagination a vastly nearer and sweeter Divine charm. . . . Against this lurid power-half-pedagogue, half-policeman, but wholly imbecile in both aspects-I . . . raise my gleeful fist, I lift my scornful foot." This kind of "elegant Billingsgate," as his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Family of Minds | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...about some snake bite?" asks Larry. A nice guy, because snake bite turns out to be White Horse Scotch. We all sit around, and I tell the boys a few sexy stories, and they sit on the edge of their chairs, because they have it rough up in Hanover. There just aren't any broads to play with. This talk about how good I am with the broads makes me a real fine guy, although they can't go for the ruptured duck I wear, it is easy...

Author: By Mister X, | Title: Mr. X Goes to Dartmouth | 10/25/1947 | See Source »

...Street, then a fairly well-to-do residential section. For a few years he lived with his maternal grandfather, a white-haired Scotsman named James Nimmo. Oscar fondly remembers rising with Grandfather Nimmo early every day and sharing the old man's milk punch, which was spiked with Scotch. Evenings there was stout for both. At 52, Oscar's digestion is perfect, his appetite enormous and he drinks little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Careful Dreamer | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...public statement, the Methodists noted that the Halsey memoirs, written with the help of Journalist J. Bryan III and serialized last summer in the Saturday Evening Post, showed the Admiral as a confirmed drinking man. He liked an occasional beer or Martini but his staple was Scotch and water. Admiral Halsey was quoted as saying: "There are exceptions, of course, but as a general rule, I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Down the Hatch | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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