Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touch is that the name Dinehart is a free English translation of that very Freuchy term "savoir-faire." He is the epitome of the "man about town," the smooth guy with a private bar and a soft "a," the fast apple who daily drives up the price of Scotch and is master of both women and wit. When this 20th Century animal tackles the 20th Century problem of getting his newly-married brother (Lyle Talbot) and his reluctant prima donna bride (Anna Sten) out of their separate rooms and into the happy marriage bed, the sophisticated fur really flies...
Colombia. In Colombia, bootblacks shine your shoes with orange peel, everybody always carries an umbrella, people consume "fantastic quantities of Scotch" at $7 a bottle, and are so polite that they call North Americans misteres instead of gringos. President Dr. Eduardo Santos is a newspaperman; the Foreign Minister (Dr. Luis Lopez de Mesa) is a psychological novelist. The first Colombian Author Gunther met was an interviewer who asked: "Do you think that intellectual fermentations, as represented by the left-wing element of the first phase of the first New Deal, are on the whole more beneficial to democracy than otherwise...
Milton Meadowcroft Murray, 37, new Guild president of Scotch-Irish-English-Dutch descent, is a crack newspaperman. Twice president of the Detroit Guild, smart negotiator of Guild contracts on two of Detroit's three papers, he is assistant city editor of the Detroit Times (though frequently out on assignment as one of the paper's best reporters). A six-footer, with a genial twang acquired through years of telephoning to city editors, his chief interest outside news and the Guild is his 120-acre farm near Detroit. He drilled its well himself, is now building a dock...
...Well, Wells Mosser really go?" spluttered old H. Flung, sidling Nehrer the bar. "Geib me Van Order of scotch, you old Dragon, Quigg! The Servis here is not of the Goodkind, and if you don't watch out, they'll Steele your Doe. The hand is Pfister. . . . I'm Weiss enough not to MacKinney rash statements about our lickin 'em Forte to nothin,' but put it on the Page that we'll raid the Big Red 7 to 6. Watch out below: Boston College 20 Clemson 13 Army 19 V.M.I. 0 Stanford 14 Oregon State 6 Colgate 6 Dartmouth...
...above last year, 110% above 1939. Charter rates on deep-sea routes now average $7 to $8.25 a ton a month v. $1 to $1.75 before the war. Hence many a coastwise shipowner has chartered (or sold) most of his vessels, practically retired to a life of Scotch and bridge at the Propeller Club...