Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Afterwards Floyd Bordsen, the high school's young music director, took the quartet to his home, poured them Scotch & soda while Mrs. Bordsen got dinner ready. From the kitchen she could hear Violist Prévost pick up her own viola, try a few passages...
Tommy's pathetic fear of the amatory competitor of his youth, and his belief that his wife still loves the other man, lead to the high point of the play, a scene in which, fortified by a liberal dose of scotch, he decides to defend his mate by force, "like a tiger and his cubs." His eventual victory over the forces of ignorance is a wonderful boost to an intellectual ego shot to pieces by a week of midyears...
When she was 17, Clorinda had just become one of the three wives of bearded, Scotch-burred Abijah N. Maclntyre. She was pretty, sensuous, rebellious...
...Long Voyage Home" is this department's candidate for the best picture of the year. Cute plots, snappy lines, and plenty of scotch-and-sodas are okay in their place; but when it comes down to producing a show that means something, that packs a punch, Hollywood must go back to its source material, life itself, and reproduce it faithfully. Masters of reality are Playwright Eugene O'Neil and Director John Ford of "The Informer." Together they have created a film of the voyage of a tramp steamer from the West Indies to England, a film which, in all sincerity...
Prolonged slump has wrought many changes in Wall Street. Lunch-hour groups of pallid clerks cluster about skyscraper entrances, talk of their latest "Scotch Week" (forced leave) in subdued tones. There are fewer limousines, fewer taxis, there is even plenty of parking space. Inside the skyscrapers, scores of vacant desks are evidence of little business, ironclad leases. Instead of an excited mob in the customers' room, a few clerks doze or play ticktacktoe...