Word: scotchness
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...smoking black Mexican cigarettes and gracefully flicking the ashes to the floor. Behind him the phone jangled incessantly. ("Tell her I'm out," he would say, "and will be back in an hour.") Around him swirled admirers, newspapermen, photographers, bullfighters and favor-seekers, helping themselves to the free Scotch and brandy, and filling the room with smoke and babble. His three personal servants bustled to unpack 15 leather bags, containing 17 suits and a tailcoat, a small treasure in jewelry, seven gold-embroidered bullfight costumes, and a batch of books which included Shakespeare (in Spanish) and Cervantes...
...Puerta del Sol. Here, amid a collection of poets, newsmen, critics, painters, sculptors and bullfight purists, Luis Miguel holds court. From Lhardy's, the court is likely to move to a restaurant for dinner, then to a nightclub to sit until dawn, serious and silent, sipping Scotch & soda and watching the floor show fade. From time to time someone will say something sardonic and there will be quick smiles of agreement. It is like watching a doomed prince and his courtiers...
...Government has failed to scotch the menace. "In some of the most flagrant and obvious cases of disloyalty, the State Department gave the disloyal officials a clean bill of health to the United Nations." Furthermore. State refused to give the names of State officers who approved such bills of health...
Personality: Square and husky (5 ft. 8½ in., 170 Ibs.), he has not smoked in 15 years, drinks an occasional Scotch highball. He is so soft-spoken that acquaintances complain of difficulty in hearing him on the telephone. He is a Presbyterian. Married to Miriam Graim since 1918, he has one daughter, Gertrude, and one son, Arthur Jr. Though he formerly devoted much of his leisure to hunting, fishing and baseball, friends now say: "His only real hobby is politics. He adores...
...Council has muffied its annual plea as well. It appears now, ominously enough, that this orgy of restraint has had a generally soporific effect on the Administrative Board, that it has lulled the Senior Tutors and Deans into the belief that a mere shuffling of hours is enough to scotch the annual uproar once and for all. What better proof is there than the restrictive proposal which issued forth last Monday from University Hall...