Word: scotchness
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...Moratorium (TIME, June 29 et seq.) Thereupon German payments ceased and BIZ would have had to shut up shop had it been only or mainly the cash register of Reparations. Instead BIZ has never been busier than at present and is today the World Bank. In softly burring Scotch last week BIZ President McGarrah announced a BIZ profit of 15,182,819 Swiss francs ($2.930,000) or 4,000,000 Swiss francs ($772,000) more than last year...
...ground from Baldwins. Boys at college distil it and call it applejack, but the farmers of New Hampshire keep it in a 50-gallon keg and call it cider. It does not burn like Rhum, it does not bite like Gin, it does not scrape like Scotch. It softens the rough edges, it burnishes the afterglow, and it catches a wind tossed echo of the music of the spheres. And above all it flows from a pitcher the mate to which Hawthorne has called miraculous...
...page letters to Dobbs Ferry. You know, my dear, that Spring is here when all the College pages Reinhart, when the Pops begin, when there are people on the streets, when you don't have to go to a movie to prove to yourself that it's bad, when Scotch doesn't taste as good as Port and Sherry...
...French Premier Andre Tardieu had never turned up in more engaging fettle. He and his huge, long-boned Finance Minister, Pierre Etienne Flandin, not only pleased Scot MacDonald by the crystal lucidity of their plans for rescuing Danubia from near bankruptcy but provoked him at a midnight session over Scotch and cigars to roars of midriff mirth which did his morale a world of good. Facing newsfolk just before M. Tardieu dashed back to Paris, dignified Scot MacDonald beamishly confessed, "We did overflow a bit at times. I might say the Danube was in such full flood that it overflowed...
...done plenty. Jonas Lie is a National Academician, painter member of New York's City Art Commission, and a director of the Art Students' League. He was born in Norway in 1880, in his own words "by accident of a Norwegian father and an American mother of Scotch ancestry from Massachusetts." A thoroughly academic training gave him great technical dexterity with paint, no very revolutionary ideas to express on canvas. He is famed for pleasant, decorative landscapes and pictures of sailboats off rocky shores. He invariably wears the purple and gold rosette of the National Institute of Arts and Letters...