Word: scotching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chicago, club-floor guests pay up to $900 a night for suites decorated with antique furniture, soft salmon colors and fireplaces. The hotel keeps a record of its customers' preferences. Said a concierge: "We can look at his card and know he was born on June 24, drinks Scotch and water, and wants a feather pillow instead of a foam...
...they were very much on view in the parking lots around the Yale Bowl before Game time. The sun shone, and the old grads capered in a golden haze. Elderly stockbrokers wore caps printed with VERB HARVARD! or YALE VERBS! and smiled benignly as they sloshed status-label Scotch. Thirty-two-year-old lawyers who had just made partner inflated huge helium balloons, tied them to their cars with ropes hundreds of feet long, and then stood there grinning and drinking. Fifty-year-old business honchos got mud on the knees of their gray flannels playing touch football among...
...Maretz PK 6-3 285 Se. Woodbridge, CT 19 Tim McGugan NB 5-10 183 Sr. Park Park Forest, NL 26 Bruce McNamer CB 6-1 180 Jr. 180, MT 93 Mark Mead DE 6-3 215 Sr. New York, NY 89 Pete Mielach DE 6-2 205 Jr. Scotch Plains, NJ 94 Mare Miller DT 6-2 220 Se. Niles, MI 70 Tom Moffatt OG 6-2 245 Se. Methane, MA 98 Kevin Mohan ADJ 5-8 165 Se. Milford, MA 55 Andy Nelan LB 6-0 205 Sr. Minmi Beach, FL 22 John O'Brien...
There he discovered familiar diversions, among them prostitutes and Scotch. His great affair with Lillian Hellman did not spur him to write nor, according to this intriguing and detailed account by Novelist Diane Johnson (Lying Low), did it change his habits. Despite his proclaimed affection for Hellman, he continued to patronize ladies of the evening and once asked her to join in a threesome (she declined). Hammett admired Marxism more than the U.S. Communist Party but joined a celebrity cell where he indulged in what Budd Schulberg called "dialectical materialism by the pool." In 1951, long after most film radicals...
...press secretary, Greg Schneiders: "If we had a choice between our organization or Mondale's, we'd take his." Mondale and his aides usually fly first class; press secretaries and other campaign assistants tend to him in relays. On a campaign swing to Maine, Chivas Regal Scotch flowed and the sandwiches were lobster...