Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 ("Scotch") (Minneapolis Symphony, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia; 8 sides). Savory roasting of a melodious chestnut...
...character, " a wit and a superb teller of un printable stories. He was born in Como, Miss, in 1881. Papa Young was a doctor who, says Stark, would have preferred the role of Southern planter of which the Civil War deprived him. Mama Young was ''very very Scotch, and very very Southern." Stark Young, as his romanticism and rhetoric show, is pretty Southern him self...
...bald but except for that you haven't changed much." (My hair is getting thin, but I try to ignore it. Shad is so blunt.) "Strapped to the top of your bald head, you have a small microwave radio receiving and transmitting set. You radio the waiter for a scotch and soda. At a nearby table there is a terrific blonde. She is wearing a radio set on her head too. It is made, like a smart feminine hat, embroidered with flowers. You see her now; you look interested. You examine her antenna out of the corner of your...
...Supply. Gin stocks are always low because little aging is required. Rum and Scotch are imported. Consequently the U.S. liquor industry's 100% conversion to war last fall threw hard-liquor bibbers back on domestic whiskey. Since many citizens regard liquor as an unnecessary evil, the Federal Government has never seriously considered rationing it. Result: the distilling industry has been forced to do its own: distributors are now getting about 70% of what they took in 1942. Meanwhile liquor consumption has increased along with payrolls...
...will be a terrible thing to contemplate--the spectacle of Soldiers Field gradually transforming itself into a jungle of cat-tails and Scotch thistles. And the thought of the press-box silent as an examination hall, the stillness broken only by gnawing of the termites, is one that could wring tears from a city editor...