Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British justice, tramp steamers and Scotch whiskey loosely bind a diverse association of peoples. The world, struggling nervously with the problems of how to place in peaceable association even more diverse groups, finds the British Empire an embarrassment and an inspiration. Meanwhile, the Empire, a hodgepodge of real estate scattered all over the globe (see map), is changing more rapidly than ever in its confused history. Most of the changes turn around the sincere efforts of the British Government to satisfy (without exchanging anarchy for stability) colonial peoples' hopes of self-government...
Parties and informal entertainments were sharply curtailed due to the inflation and Yale Game pinch. Some enterprising individuals in the river Houses managed to furnish enough watered Scotch and sherry for token Thanksgiving celebration...
...common with his competitors, O'Brien sadly affirmed that scotch would be unavailable for the great mass of eager purchasers. His advice to the frustrated, in the grand manner of a Bourbon queen of France, was "let 'em drink rye--of bourbon...
John O. Cate, manager of the S. S. Pierce rum refectory, has been conducting a sale of that West Indian brew for the last week. "Harvard men like scotch," he sighed, looking at the unsold rum, "but they will respond to Southern Comfort as well as General Grant...
...owner of the Varsity Liquor Store in the Square, Frank Purcell, disagreed with his colleagues on the prevailing undergraduate scotch propensity. "Harvard men will drink anything alcoholic," he remarked, hastily explaining that the turpentine on the floor would be used for the walls. He expected malt liquor to be in demand, and was stocking quart bottles of Pell's Light and Blatz' Heavy last Tuesday...