Word: scotchness
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...noble, rich and proud lords of Scotch whiskeydom who sit on the board of Britain's Distillers Co., Ltd., smiled sedately last week at the good news their bearded, blind Board Chairman William H. Ross had for them...
Those who looked for a New Deal Governor to begin with a flourish were disappointed. He did not even deliver an inaugural address. During his first nine days in office, he allowed many people to come and whisper in his ear, including Democratic National Committeeman John H. Wilson (? Scotch-Irish, ¼ Tahitian, ? Hawaiian), but no political appointment was made, not one single official statement issued...
...something which he later denied was a request to stop the fight. The referee stepped in front of him, raised Baer's hand in victory. Max Baer was born in Omaha in 1909. His 6-ft. father was a Jew of Alsatian stock. His 200-lb. mother was Scotch-Irish. By the time Max was old enough to work after school. Jacob Baer had advanced from butchering cattle for Swift & Co. to running a small ranch and meat-packing plant of his own in Livermore, Calif. Timid Max Baer went home from school by a three-mile detour because...
...pride overcame him. "Look at the bathroom!" he exclaimed. It was such a chamber as only ladies of the cinema bathe in. The rites of house-warming were later transferred to the tenth floor of the Raleigh Hotel across the street-where the number of the guests consuming scotch and soda, rye and bourbon, cocktails and sandwiches, mysteriously doubled. In Manhattan two days later the Postmaster General had another proud moment. He and his children, Betty, n, Anne, 8 and Jimmy. 6, boarded the S. S. Conte di Savoia at Quarantine. "Who's there?" demanded a woman...
...Take a look. See eef you can find one black and blue on me." Clad only in a pink "tightie." Cinemactress Lupe Velez pirouetted before a woman reporter in her dressing room in a Brooklyn theatre to scotch a rumor that Husband Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller beat her. Miss Velez: "I sue you, darlin', if you say he ponch...