Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve years a journalist in the Orient, Ernest O. Hauser has not been content to meet the East over a Scotch & soda in Tokyo's Imperial Hotel. He has dug his way deep into the mysteries of Oriental temperament. Honorable Enemy is a knowing and compassionate portrait of the Japanese character...
Died. Max ("Boo-Boo") Hoff, 48, tiny, roistering gambler, promoter, boxing-stable manager who made millions selling illicit liquor during Prohibition years, lost everything after Repeal, ended by running a soda-pop juke joint in West Philadelphia; apparently of an overdose of sleeping tablets; in Philadelphia...
...with the new biological technique: use of mildly radioactive substances as food. These can be traced through the body by detection of the rays which they give off. (In the past, scientists have lost track of food after it left the alimentary canal.) The Harvard biochemists fed radioactive baking soda to rats, found that the carbon dioxide in it was being used in the liver to build carbohydrates...
Good shots: Robert Cummings spiking Coburn's precious Romanee-Conti 1903 (only twelve bottles vintaged, six of them for the King of England) with soda pop to make it potable...
From her position in the wings, Secretary Moir has seen Winnie strut the stage with nothing but a towel about his middle. She has heard him bawl for his mail, his secretary and a scotch & soda all in one breath. She tells of how he took up painting to assuage the bitterness that followed Gallipoli, how in his younger years he had stage-door-johnnied Ethel Barrymore (with little success). But though she is sometimes astute about her idol ("He is 'over-engined' for peace perhaps but perfectly engined, I think, for war"), Winston Churchill remains for Phyllis...