Word: scotches
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...Perhaps what gives her writing its peculiar tang," wrote Somerset Maugham, "is her gift for seeing something to laugh at in the bitterest tragedies of the human animal." Her own life started in bitter circumstances. She was born Dorothy Rothschild in 1893 in West End, N.J., of a Scotch mother who died during her infancy and a Jewish father who died, leaving her penniless, when she was in her teens...
...free space is paying off handsomely. W.R.G. began this month by picking up three new accounts-Boodle's Gin from Britain, Bristol-Myers' Score hair preparations and the General Mills nibbles called Bugles, Whistles and Daisy's. Last week it snared another: an as yet unnamed Scotch to be marketed by Calvert. With total of 14 clients worth $52 million in annual billings so far, the 14-month-old shop has been publicized into the ranks of the nation's 50 biggest agencies. Mary Wells is certain that billings will rise to $100 million...
...Scotch and Soda, Kingston Trio...
...flexible enough to portray three different scenes by switching only a few paintings and the simple but effective lighting. The set's only failing was that it seemed a little flimsy; occasionally the backdrop started oscillating ominously and one feared that it had been put together with Scotch tape...
Bertie from the godless guardians and placed him in care of his grandmother, Lady Russell, who had been a lady in waiting to Queen Victoria and was a Scotch Presbyterian of dour principles. Bertie was judged too sickly for school (actually he was strong as a horse) and was sketchily educated at home by tutors or a slightly dotty aunt. He had no way of knowing until much later that he was one of the cleverest little boys who ever lived...