Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cognac, gin, rum and Scotch for a North Ireland officers' club, with no offsetting credit for resale of the liquor; other charges running into the millions for refundable items or for goods on which the price was later reduced...
Beard's defense of Alexander Hamilton is typical of Beard's shift in emphasis. It is true, says Beard, that Hamilton thought of the "people" as a "great beast." But in The Federalist the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler" (as John Adams called Hamilton) hailed the Constitution as a "people's document." The privilege of the "writ of habeas corpus," which guarantees individuals and groups against arbitrary imprisonment, covered everybody, not merely the "rich, wellborn and able." At one point in the symposium on "A More Perfect Union and Justice," Dr. Smyth tries to get Beard...
...After being thrown out of the Philippines, the mail service was damn bad. Everything finally got straightened out in Australia, and my favorite relaxation in the afternoon while resting up from two war patrols in an "S" class submarine was to get into the bathtub with a bottle of scotch and a copy of TIME and go to town. I did, 17 days...
...gosh! I am Scotch, Irish and English and might want to live there sometime...
Newsmen learned that Roosevelt, who likes to work mornings, and Churchill, who likes to work over a Scotch & soda at night, had reached a compromise. They worked late, but got up for an 8:30 breakfast and began working again. One day they went fishing for the speckled trout...