Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offending reporter, holding his clipboard behind his back, said no, thank you, but they had to leave. The theatre manager invited the reporters to a bar across the street so that he could buy them drinks. The five of them went over and ordered scotch and sodas, but the bartender refused to serve the reporters and they had to leave after...
...wooden dispatch box is about the size of a case of Scotch: two feet long, 18 inches wide, 12 inches high...
...Manhattan, over a Scotch-and-milk, tousled Author James T. (Studs Lonigan) Farrell confessed that religion scares him mostly because he cannot visualize any hereafter to his liking. "If I were to go to Heaven," he explained wryly, "I would find my sainted mother nagging my father, and my grandmother bawling out my grandfather. And both ladies would be telling the Lord how to run things. On the other hand, if I go where I should go, I would find my aunt chasing the Devil as always. That wouldn't be any change for me, either...
...with the South African firm of Lindel-baum & Co., wine and spirit importers? Thanks to the throb of distant tom-toms (which seem to be saying Mau Mau), the least alert reader can guess that the spirits imported by evil Mr. Lindelbaum are more vodka and voodoo than honest Scotch. South African-born Novelist van der Post (Venture to the Interior) has taken his theme from French Philosopher-Sociologist Lucien Levy-Bruhl: "Le reve est le vrai dieu des Primitifs [The dream is the real god of primitive peoples]." The Russians know that the far-flung Amangtak-wena tribe...
...Know How It Tastes." While his men executed the maneuvers in the legislature, George Craig was in the thick of the fight behind the scenes. Craig knows how to fight, and loves a good one. The descendant of Scotch-Irishmen who came to Indiana from Virginia about 1815, he grew up in the tough, coal-mining atmosphere of Brazil (rhymes with Hazel). His father, Bernard Craig, 75, is still practicing law there. A Jeffersonian Democrat (the last Democratic presidential candidate he voted for: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1932), Bernard Craig was a fierce foe of the Ku Klux Klan...