Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four days three million Britons listened to 40 election speeches by Winston Churchill. The 71 -year-old Conservative Prime Minister had barnstormed Britain by car, scarcely taking time out to lunch by the roadside off sandwiches and Scotch...
...their subjects to become money mad), make and administer their own laws, order executions (by drowning at sea), give each native who marries a house as wedding present. Each king has provided a bronze bust of himself for the royal gallery, each has maintained an unfailing cellar of matured Scotch whiskey in the royal "palace" (a sprawling teak-and-tile mansion...
...Weltschmerz. In all his 38 carefree years, a political thought apparently never entered his head. He was born into a wealthy family, composed 60 pieces before he was eleven, was famed throughout Europe before he was 20. He became a musical Marco Polo who brought back from Scotland a Scotch Symphony, from the Hebrides Fingal's Cave, from Italy an Italian Symphony. His merits as a composer have been argued for a century. If his capricious music was not always profound, his mastery of technique sometimes concealed the fact. He was an organist who made Europe aware of Johann...
Indians and Indians. The Top of the Mark, the Mark Hopkins' famed skyline cocktail room, was an international tippling spot. Viscount and Lady Cranborne drank Old Fashioneds, Earl and Lady Halifax Scotch & soda, Clement Attlee plain soda water...
Rival press associations, which neither confirmed nor tried to scotch the Lochner stories, nervously waited to see whether the A.P.'s German ace was on his way to another Pulitzer Prize, or whether his "inside information" would eventually assay as low as similar lurid accounts from the anonymous "Swedish travelers in Germany" who always know the Wilhelmstrasse "inside...