Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...informal quips were as popular as his formal wit. Of language, he once said: "[Canadians] use English for literature, Scotch for sermons and American for conversation." One of his most quoted sallies: "God takes care of fools, drunks and the United States of America." In Nonsense Novels he created the young man in love who "flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions...
...heaven. The Stone of Scone is carted off to America by a Pittsburghian Scot in order that it may be safe from the English. On the occasion of its departure a send-off is given in the pub by a bag-piper which is pleasant if you hae Scotch blood in you. Another tantalizing feature of the play was the Scotch displayed on the shelves of the pub. Plenty of Haig & Haig, Johnny Walker, and Vat 69 was prominently visible...
...four days short of 41. (His father, the greatly esteemed George V, was 44 when his father, Edward VII, died, and Edward was 59 when Victoria withered away.) Most of the blood in his veins was the German blood of the Hanovers, mixed with the English Tudors and Scotch Stuarts. His house had owned the English name of Windsor only 19 years. But on Dec. 10, 1936, when he stuttered a little and took up the burden of his brother, the slow mutation of the British way had made him as British as a cockney...
...never lobbied before. He knew few Congressmen. When he got to Washington, he discovered that the House Foreign Affairs Committee had already closed its hearings. But swarthy Jagjit Singh went to work. He organized no letter campaign, deluged no Congressmen with telegrams, threw no Scotch-&-soda parties in a plush hotel room. Instead he padded up & down corridors of the Congressional office building, calling on members. He found them sympathetic, but unwilling to buck the U.S. State Department, the British Empire and UNRRA. He argued: India was chipping in $35 million to UNRRA, while millions of its own were starving...
...rude, uncomfortable U.S. barracks in China were scorching last week with well-rounded curses against Jap interference with soldiers' already limited social life. Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell had ordered his men not to buy Scotch, rye or brandy ($30 to $50 U.S. per fifth). Reason: Japanese bootleggers were smuggling phony "American" brands into Free China. Some of the whiskey was poisoned...