Word: scotchness
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...first morning, after having been awakened too early and refused his customary black coffee, he was so angry that he forgot about being a drunkard, so exhausted and stimulated by rage he did not miss his usual morning half tumbler of Scotch. Thus the cure began. After he had bawled out doctors, nurses and the world in general, calling for a padded cell as preferable to modern scientific, heartless hypocrisy, another patient told him quietly: "Say, fellow, you've got it all wrong. You don't tell them. They tell you." Once he had accepted its concealed...
...they still have oysters. This is the last week--so Charley will tell you. Then on and on and on like so many songs. Shoulder to shoulder, bolder and bolder. Bolder and colder and older and greater and much later you find yourself at the Crescent Club. Stick to scotch, Please! Can't anyone enunciate? Reform! reform! we're going to reform the world... that's a song they used to sing at the Old Howard. You are not unfamiliar with it, perhaps, Rosemary?... Not at all... in fact very flattering. Very, very Herry. That's the way Mr. Jaunders...
...were prevented this week from reading an article earnestly addressed to them by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald in his National Labor fortnightly News Letter. Into this pronouncement against Adolf Hitler, the strongest yet issued by a leading statesman of any Great Power, Mr. MacDonald packed many a homely Scotch remark...
...birthday his daughters sent him Scotch whiskey, which he likes to drink after midnight. His Prudential friends also gave him something he yearned for- a light tan suitcase banded with bright red stripes. Red is his obsession. Red are his ties, red the flowers he sends Mrs. Hoffman (she pays the florist), red the dresses he prefers women to wear. Earliest appearance of the obsession: first time he saw Mrs. Hoffman, she was leaning over the white gate of her home at Americus, Ga., wearing a red calico dress...
...zeal," "courage," "loyalty" or "resourcefulness" of its organization. After the sons and grandsons of the late great Cyrus Hall McCormick began to lavish their energies on personal affairs, Alexander Legge took command. When Mr. Legge died in 1933, right at hand was a faithful first vice president whose sober Scotch virtues had raised him from the stock room-Addis Emmet McKinstry-Last week Mr. McKinstry retired because of ill health, and Harvester's direc-tors-four of whom are McCormicks- again reached down for a first vice president whose qualifications included his Scotch name. Now 65, President Sydney George...