Word: scotchness
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...plain Mrs. Bates, who was known as tia (aunt) up and down the west coast. Film Star Clark Gable once journeyed 1,000 miles out of his way just to stay at Quinta Bates. Guests liked to sit in Tia Bates's museum-like house and, over Scotch-and-sodas or pisco sours, listen to her talk. Her memory was long and her stories often spicy. Guests also found the quinta hard to leave (two of them stayed 16 years). Noel Coward once arrived for a few days, remained a month and left a 70-line verse eulogy...
Instead of writing his weighty opinions on women, politics and Scotch-on-the-rocks, Ruark is going back to reporting and expects to cut his column from five times a week to three, make it a "kind of global feature," reporting what he sees. From his base camp in Rome (where he will pay no U.S. income tax), Ruark plans to travel the world, starting off in Spain to fish and see the bullfights...
...Representative Reed is apparently willing to slough off the dangers of a deepening deficit to promote a popular bill. He continues to push it through Committee in the face of warnings from Eisenhower's Budget Director, Joseph N. Dodge, that a June tax reduction will scotch any hopes for a balanced budget this year. The Administration has renounced the pleasant myth that pared waste can end deficit spending. Now the House should take Eisenhower's new lead and reject in forceful terms Reed's cavalier financing...
Craig went into a barbershop for his first U.S. haircut, the barber sputtered uncertainly, then announced that he could not cut a Negro's hair. Said Craig later: "I told him I was half-Scotch. I asked him if he would give me half a haircut. He asked me to leave." Augustine Njoku-Obi got a job in a laundry, discovered that he was being paid only half as much as the whites next to him. The first time the boys went to the movies, they were hustled upstairs to the balcony...
Other Schlockmeisters thoughtfully send around to writing teams lists of leading national firms and their products with the notation that "any time we get these mentioned, we will deeply appreciate it." The deep appreciation always takes a concrete form-anything from a case of Scotch to a lifetime supply of fertilizer...