Word: scotches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hampshire, a cramped, L-shaped bedroom on the second floor of Manchester's Eagle Hotel was jammed and seething. Coats & hats were piled on the twin beds, and people were perching cheerfully on top of the coats & hats. Others helped themselves to the open bottles of Scotch, bourbon and rye on the dresser, or dug into the communal paper buckets of chop suey, chicken and egg rolls on the table. Looming above the pandemonium, with the air of a prophet who has just been slugged by a vigorous vision, was Candidate Estes Kefauver. He moved slowly through the throng...
...Stock up on no-longer-to-be-imported Scotch whisky...
...walk among them, trying not to get trampled and swinging their lassos . . . The most important thing at the roundup is jaloviina, which is a mixture of brandy and alcohol distilled from wood. But the Lapps also like foreign firewaters. I just happened to have with me a bottle of Scotch. My interpreter foolishly mentioned this fact, and we were presently informed that it would be a nice gesture if we offered a drink to the Lapp chieftain. The chieftain, of course, had to pass it along to some sub-chieftains and the stuff was gone before you could say jaloviina...
Family Background: Born Feb. 16, 1904, in Milwaukee, of Scotch-Irish parents. His great-uncle, George Kennan, traveled by dog sled 5,000 miles through Czarist Russia on an abortive project to link Moscow and the U.S. by a Siberian-Alaskan telegraph line, wrote an anti-Czarist book, Siberia and the Exile System...
...sweater-bar at CORCORAN'S in the Square offers the solution to your Xmas problem; the classic short-sleeved pullover in wonderful soft wool. The one pictured above is a Scotch-Nap creation at $4.95. It comes in natural, yellow, blues, green and other rich warm shades. Corcoran's also offers a large selection of long-sleeved pullovers and cardigans by famous makers. For those with more expensive tastes there are luxurious cashmeres to choose from...