Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...estimated $846,800,000 in excise and nuisance taxes under the 1941 Revenue Act. Liquor led the list. The new tax on 100-proof spirits is $4 a gallon. $1 more than it was last month. The difference comes to as much as $2.40 on a case of Scotch, which is bottled in fifths. Department stores found they had to put on holiday shifts to take care of the rush...
Newest member of the Harvard tweedy set, with a special predilection for gin, scotch, or possibly Coca-Cola if a sufficient amount of rum is added, is a South American Coati-Mondi recently brought back from the jungles of Peru...
...young and he made a drunken safari with Big Boy which lasted only as long as the liquor. He killed one lion, with extreme lack of pleasure. The beaters howled and threatened until they were given candy. Back in the hotel lobby "dying men, full of fever and Scotch, [sat] reading the stale London Times...
Last month in Scotch Plains, N.J., a shoestring firm called Flanders Hall published a 115-page book called The 100 Families that Rule the Empire. Purportedly, it exposed the planet's best-known interlocking directorate-the British upper classes. Inadvertently, it exposed another, more modest, but significant...
...several Beachcombers (in Manhattan, Providence, Boston, Miami Beach) and Manhattan's Copacabana. In these resorts he has featured tropic atmosphere and a tall, affirmative rum drink called the Zombie, shrewdly advertised: "Only Two Zombies to a Customer." Imperturbable showman Proser himself doesn't like rum, sticks to Scotch-&-water, once told a New Yorker reporter: "I got a lot of saloons. So what...