Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotel's main floor did a rush business from 9 a.m. to midnight. Scotch ran out the first night, but there was no repetition of that disaster; the Government hospitality fund had shipped 35 cases out from Britain, also provided 500,000 cigarets and 1,250 cigars...
Bobby Hackett, the well-known cornet-player, will be featured with Ivan Wain-wright's Blue Boys at the Jazz Club's sixth session in the Hop Scotch Room of the Copley Square Hotel Sunday afternoon, December 12, from 3 to 6 o'clock. Hackett, a native of Boston, has led the band at Nick's in New York, and once played with Glenn Miller...
...reached out to hold up a slipping brassiere strap and occasionally competition has threatened the leadership of the Old Howard, but never did its loyal following of beardless youth and balded following of beardless youth and balded age fall away as did the Millerites. Here, with a bottle of Scotch and large eigars, fresh-from-prep-school Yardlings matched their manliness against each other. Crimson CRIMSON candidates pushed into backstage interviews. Roverent Yale men dropped in on their pilgrimages to the nearby Waldorf where a plaque marks the birthplace of Eli Yale--across the street from the current Crawford House...
...wages as the cost of living soared. In this atmosphere, U.S. Army men in China soon lost all sense of normal value. It is no novelty to see a U.S. soldier or civilian official offer 30 U.S. dollars ($3,000 Chinese, at black-market rate) for a bottle of Scotch-when & if he can find...
Since whiskey has gone to war, there is a perpetual shortage, with any scotch or rye that finds its way into the stores being quickly bought up by the thirsty public, and the situation shows no signs of imminent improvement...