Word: scotchness
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...decorated with trills and curlicues, and its precise pinpoints of sound and muffled thunder filled the small room better than they do a larger concert hall. Customers found the music relaxing and, after the strangeness of the first few notes had worn off, a good blend with bourbon or Scotch...
Skunks for Sears. Murchison got his start in business as a boy in Athens. His parents were of Scotch Presbyterian pioneer stock and, for Athenians, fairly well off; his father was head of the First National Bank. Nevertheless, young Clint, the second of nine children, used to get up at 3 a.m. to run a trap line for coons and skunks, sold the pelts to Sears, Roebuck...
Private Life: Outdoors, a passion for hunting, fishing, hiking; indoors, for woodworking (which he now rarely has time for), and tying fancy flies for next spring's fishing. Smokes six to eight cigars a day, drinks an occasional Scotch & soda, likes western movies to get his mind off work, and quietly frets at the social chores that go with...
...another front, the storm clouds over Godfrey were dissolved in a flood of financial sunshine. CBS reported that the programs relinquished by Godfrey's long time sponsor Chesterfield cigarettes had all been bought up by four other advertisers: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. (Scotch tape), Toni Co., Pillsbury Mills and Frigidaire...
...Scotch & Democracy. Mlle. de Beauvoir did not like the taste of whisky, but at one point she drank Scotch until 3 in the morning "because Scotch is the key to America." She was astonished at the "sudden warmth and cordial simplicity" of Americans, and "American generosity" left her "feeling ashamed." In fact, she liked Americans so much that she wrote: "How I regretted that I could not feel more generously towards a country where the reign of man asserts itself so bravely...