Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COMIC relief comes never too soon in the person of Rough (that's right), a feisty and eccentric ole London detective, who sweeps in with a bottle of Scotch whiskey and the story of an ancient crime commited right in Mrs. Manningham's parlor. John Guerrasio brings the play to life with his odd characterization. Mrs. Manningham settles down, Mr. Manningham's motives are revealed, and Rough sprouts about the stage with his Holmesian moustache and pipe, becoming both the saving touch of credibility to the play, but also the final measure of mystery that escalates this belated tale...
When he does venture out, he wears his one navy-blue suit. Often he walks to the elegant St. Francis Hotel, where he likes to sit in the ornate palm court and drink Scotch. "Whenever I had $10," he says, "I'd blow it on an expensive lunch...
...soon be up to $330; in two months a Swiss Omega watch has jumped $100, to $495. Wholesale jewelry prices, pushed up by rising gold prices as the dollar has waned, were up 30% last month. In the Washington, D.C., area, half a gallon of Johnnie Walker Red Label Scotch is up $1, as is a fifth of Courvoisier cognac; wine importers have said that price increases are coming...
...traveled frequently with Vance, including missions to the Middle East, Europe and China. But his most valuable service may be to serve as the Secretary's sounding board and trusted ear when Vance puts his feet up at the end of a difficult day, sips a Scotch and unwinds...
...hole Ivy League golf championship held over the Yale Golf Course on Saturday was nothing short of a lollapalooza of the links. The Yale University course is a Scotch surrealist landscape featuring Brobdingnagian bunkers, Cecil B. DeMille greens, and on Saturday Yale's Peter Teravainen and Dartmouth's Joe Henley performed a rendition of "dueling birdies" that could have been choreographed by Busby Berkeley...