Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about five o'clock Miss Helen Keller and her secretary appeared. They welcomed me to their home with southern hospitality. Miss Helen Keller was born and lived a number of years in Alabama. Miss Thompson revealed her Scotch origin in her speech every now and then, nor did she need to conceal...
Introduction to Gina. The four airmen pulled off the collarless white cotton shirts and blue pants that they had worn across the border and plunged into their first hot baths since they were imprisoned. While soaping, they asked for, and promptly got, Scotch and sodas. Then they put on new civvies, and marveled at the slacks made of Dacron, a cloth they had never seen before. They began to ask questions. Had they been promoted? What were the 1955 cars like? Within three hours from the time they splashed across the bridge, the four were aboard The Bataan (once General...
Panama will obviously have to consider the offer at greater length. But after Scotch-on-the-rocks in Dixie cups and a picnic lunch on paper plates, Panama's Foreign Minister borrowed a typewriter and batted out a statement to the effect that the invitation sounded fine...
...stepped into her dressing room in Manhattan's Playhouse theater. This opening night of The Glass Menagerie had proved what many critics and theatergoers had long believed: that Laurette Taylor was one of America's great actresses. Among the flowers and the telegrams stood a bottle of Scotch, the gift of testy Critic George Jean Nathan. It was a special kind of a tribute, and Laurette understood. She wired: "Thanks for the vote of confidence...
...rate of 10,000 a week, are pleading for food, housing and jobs. Inexperience-his own and his people's-make leaders hard to find, ideas scarce, and decisions difficult to make. ("This government," said one of the U.S. officials anxiously trying to help, "is stuck together by Scotch tape, bits of string and putty.") The French, striving to maintain by fair means and by sly means a remnant of influence and profit in the land they have exploited for seven decades, obstruct him with the wily rearguard maneuvers of colonialism...