Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scotch & splash, haggis and heather are all close to the heart of canny Archibald Clark Kerr, first Baron Inverchapel of Loch Eck and imminent British ambassador to the U.S. On the high road to Washington this week, Lord Inverchapel had a youthful bagpiper of the Clan Maclean in his personal retinue. Henceforth, state occasions at the British Embassy will be stirred by the bonny skirl of 200-year-old Highland pipes...
When he retires this summer, Professor McIlwain will move to his 150 acre farm in Maryland, where he will busy himself with book-writing. Though reluctant to reveal his subject matter, he says, with a canny Scotch eye on the best-seller list, "Stories of personal experience on the farm, such as "The Egg and I'm seem to be selling well. 'Maybe I can write something like 'The Professor...
...nearly done, Baron Inverchapel of Loch Eck could look forward to relaxing in his ancestral home in Argyll, Scotland with his paints, his books and his inevitable Scotch & water, before taking up his next assignment as Ambassador...
...your issue of March 18, you refer to Mr. Winston Churchill as follows: "According to his custom, before dinner he rapidly downed five Scotch highballs." Also: "His valet slipped him a slug of brandy to reinforce him." You are probably right, but I am reminded of a legend about President Lincoln during the War between the States. When some character was complaining to President Lincoln about the Northern General Grant's proclivities for whiskey, Lincoln is said to have remarked that he would find out the brand of whiskey that General Grant used and send a barrel...
...your head, reader? What recent gains in sensibility have you to register? Do you read or think as much as you used to? You are aware no doubt that your consumption of tobacco and alcohol has practically doubled . . . you will plank down three quid for a bottle of Scotch, you can't be trusted with a railway towel or a piece of hotel soap . . . and [you] write to the Times against Picasso; you're more antiSemitic, even, than before...