Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here, with a bottle of Scotch and large cigars, fresh-from-prep-school Yardlings matched their manliness against each other. And, quite different from Boston's more pretentious musical revues, dress was informal even on opening nights at the friendly little theatre off Scollay Square...
They also attacked John Scott [TIME'S Stockholm correspondent], going into detail as to his antecedents, Scotch-Irish they said, but suddenly, before you know what's happened, his real name is revealed as "Isadore Kaplan," just as surely as President Roosevelt's name is "Rosenfelt." And of course, since he is a Jew, what else could be expected of him, but that he write typically Jewish lies to be printed by your Jewish-controlled magazine...
...Rios sold the nylons off her shapely legs for $1,500 in bonds (see cut). In Greensboro, N.C., one pair of nylons brought $25,000 without benefit of legs. ¶ In Hollywood "Prince" Mike (Harry Gerguson) Romanoff, proprietor of a fashionable movie-colony restaurant, offered a free case of Scotch (any brand) to each $10,000 bond purchaser, sold a case at ceiling price to buyers of a $5,000 bond. Three days' take: $78,000. ¶ The New Mexico boy or girl who sold the most bonds was promised a day's Governorship of the state...
...whole unpleasant business was right out of the old Scotch litany...
...splendid city of Buenos Aires was thriving, cocky, getting richer by the minute. Busy factories billowed thick, black smoke. The Calle Florida, flashier than ever, glittered with the smart new shops of refugees. Pin-striped upper-crusters gathered at 8 p.m. in the Plaza Bar, sipped the abundant Scotch, ribbed the preposterous military Government and told with detailed animation whom they slept with the night before...