Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve years a journalist in the Orient, Ernest O. Hauser has not been content to meet the East over a Scotch & soda in Tokyo's Imperial Hotel. He has dug his way deep into the mysteries of Oriental temperament. Honorable Enemy is a knowing and compassionate portrait of the Japanese character...
...still hale, cocksure of him self. His occupational paunch does not stop him from playing golf (usually two holes), drinking his favorite cocktail (Scotch old-fashioned), eating his favorite foods (Beech-Nut). A onetime Judge employe, he bubbles when he tells a story. And his summer place at Manchester, Vt. is always open house for any good Republican...
...Harvard students threw themselves off the Weeks Bridge over the Charles River. Well, no, they didn't exactly THROW themselves over--if we know those Harvard kids, they dived and had a couple of friends close at hand (just in case) with a rowboat and a quart of Scotch. They think ahead, those Harvard lads. --From the Sunday Advertiser...
Most embattled of all the Independents' veterans, 69-year-old John Sloan, a scrappy, Pennsylvania-born Scotch-Irishman, has long been one of the most engaging personalities of the U.S. art world. One New Year's Eve, with Artist Marcel Duchamp (famed for his Nude ,Descending the Staircase), John Sloan climbed to the top of Washington Square's Arch, there built a bonfire and read a solemn declaration proclaiming Greenwich Village an independent republic. Less violent than his speeches and ideas were John Sloan's trenchant, Daumier-like paintings and etchings of Manhattan street and rooftop...
...talking about. For him, the best art, literature, and music was produced before the nineteenth century. Enough of a cosmopolite to prefer Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart to Tchaikovsky and Rimsky Korsakov, smoke English instead of Russian cigarettes, keep cases of French wine in his cellar instead of scotch or vodka, and obtain American citizenship in 1930, he is nevertheless simple and quiet in taste, abhorring social life and all that it entails. However, the professor continues to sling his provoking social theories into the intellectual boxing ring, and although they get slammed around quite a bit there's no reason...