Word: scotchness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the foregoing matters are attended to, there will be left a very serviceable plot gimmick, involving a playboy who has just shot his seventh wife "in the fleshy part of the thigh." His defense is that having drunk two bottles of Scotch whiskey in twelve hours, he was not aware of what he was doing. When the prosecution adduces medical testimony to the effect that anybody with two-fifths of a gallon tucked in would be incapable of doing anything, a lad just out of Harvard Law is selected to save the situation by ingesting fifty-odd jiggers...
...Biggs was dispatched for scotch tape to cover openings in the pipe, while Mr. Flentrop gallantly placed his finger against the bottom to keep the wine from spilling...
...leaking!" Wine dripped onto the floor and Mrs. Biggs rushed over with more scotch tape. As he held the pipe, smiling embarrassedly, Mr. Flentrop suggested Hans who saved the dike or perhaps the harassed captain of a bazooka team. The wine was finally poured...
...former schoolteacher with an M.A. from Edinburgh University and a preference for Scotch and soda, Nyerere is the son of a tribal chief, once frankly described himself as a "troublemaker." But, dreaming of the day when he might be Tanganyika's first black Prime Minister and needing the cooperation of the Europeans, he has moderated his views recently. London says that independence is a long way off, and the British have assured their continued control of the 67-man council by retaining a majority of seats for their own appointees. But as his followers sang a little hymn...
...Hopkins to Washington. Often he stays overnight, and the Upstairs Red Room (so called to distinguish it from the main-floor parlor known as the Red Room) is generally kept ready for him. In the privacy of the presidential bedroom, the brothers can unbend over a drink or two-Scotch and soda for Ike, a bone-dry martini for Milton-furl sleeves, lounge coatless in the easy chairs and talk...