Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comers. A weekend high-gos golfer, he holds a long-distance (not accuracy) driving record at Chicago's Bob O'Link Golf Club; he is said to have the longest, most exasperating hook outside a Wodehouse story. He smokes cigars, cigarets, and his huge fumigatory pipe, drinks Scotch highballs, dieted 20 Ib. off before going to Washington, has eaten them back on with interest. He hates exercise, said recently: "The only exercise I take now is walking in the funeral processions of friends who died from too much...
...cooperation:1) Hitler-when bombs started raining down, everyone got fighting mad, got together; 2) Britain's wartime leaders. Whatever Churchill's past mistakes, today he is the perfect rallying post. The cabinet is cohesive. And the King-duty sticks out all over him. He mixed a Scotch & soda for me himself...
...original Southern type, "the core about which most Southerners of whatever degree were likely to be built," Cash selects not the aristocrat but the "backcountry pioneer farmer," the descendant not of English squires but of "half-wild Scotch and Irish clansmen." This countryman's outstanding trait was his lack of complexity. A direct product of the soil, he was "as simple a type as Western civilization has produced in modern times." To that intense simplicity, Cash assigns several Southern traits: individualism, puerility, a tendency to violence, romanticism, hedonism, piety, a passionate love of rhetoric and of politics...
...long arm of the law has reached out to hold up a slipping brassiere strap and occasionally competition has threatened the leadership of the Old Howard, but never has its loyal following of beardless youth and balded age fallen away as did the Millerites. Here, with a bottle of Scotch and large cigars, fresh-from-prep-schools Yardlings match their manliness against each other. Crimson Crimson candidates push into backstage dressing rooms for exclusive interviews. Reverent Yale men drop in on their pilgrimages to the nearby Waldorf where a plaque marks the birthplace of Eli Yale--across the street from...
...missed list are minor roles filled by such veterans as Akim Tamiroff, Lynne Overman, and Lon Chaney Jr. as Canadian cowboys and Walter Hampden as an Indian chief. Amongst the funniest strips of celluloid in this year's output is the strip-tease duel between Overman's Scotch Indian and Tamiroff as his halfbreed expartner who shoots not for the heart but for the suspender button...