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Squirming about on the floor, on treating big Audy Guadielle to "gie it ta me good," the plaid-shirted Houdini, bearing the best of references from Yale, Princeton, and Penn, kept up a steady stream of Scotch brogue while he struggled out of the knots in two seconds flat. Not letting the program leg for a minute, he then broke out into some ballads lauding bonnie Scotland's "nicht nichts" and "Maxwellton's bracs...
...Scotch and a lot of fine woolens, machinery and plumbing fixtures. The ship itself found a ready buyer in the War Shipping Administration, which in due course will pay Mr. Lovett some reasonable part of the $1,000,000 he thinks it is worth in the present state...
Last week, for instance, the OPA slashed the price of women's full-fashioned nylon stockings from around $2.95 to $1.65. A Manhattan department store was advertising rye whiskey at $2.29 per quart, and Scotch at $3.29 per fifth. Gasoline, which the citizen ought to conserve, is still offered to him at between 17? and 23? per gallon-and the Government is paying a transportation subsidy to the oil companies to keep the price down in the East...
...miles of Siberian vastness. He had seen American soldiers in many countries, listened to the beefs and urgings of many men. Into his ears had been poured the stupidities & wranglings, the hopes & fears of more than half the world. He was so tired he could only toy with the Scotch & soda to which he had so long looked forward. But when he faced the newsmen they could see, underneath his grey fatigue, a burning urgency they had never seen before, even in an urgent Wendell Willkie...
...Inglewood golfers who still venture out 14 miles from Seattle for a game see grease-stained workers and a few sailors playing table tennis, the slot machines, drinking beer and inexpensive Scotch at the club's bar, playing poker and bridge in the lounge, reading before the great fireplaces or rambunctiously roughhousing in the corridors on the second floor...