Word: whiskey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Kelly, a teetotaler, would not even have a thimbleful of whiskey at his party, but he sat down at his typewriter and batted out the news for happy Walla Wallans to read in the morning editions of his newspaper...
Justice Benedict E. Dineen retired to a conference room, summoned lawyers, Father Divine, and Colonel Julian. Reason for his offer: he wanted to restore peace. He haughtily produced a sheaf of warehouse receipts, replied with Oxonian accent: "I own more than $800,000 worth of aged whiskey. I am an adventurer. Within a few days I can raise $50,000 or $60,000. I've spent that much money in two or three weeks on a pleasure cruise...
...bottle parties" -i.e., the guests either bring their own liquor, paying a stiff "corkage charge" or they leave advance orders at the club to have it sent in from wholesalers and "stored" until the guest arrives. The cheapest wine comes to $4 per bottle by this system, the cheapest whiskey $5. In the World War II bottle party boom, Mayfair clubs are now offering elaborate and sexy floor shows (see cuts), causing some wonder at London's Picture Post's observation that "the atmosphere is rather like that of a family party where the younger girls...
...girl of the Last Chance saloon, turns in her best performance since the somewhat similar role in The Blue Angel brought her to Hollywood. To the thrilling question-could Dietrich come back via the western trail?-her bottle-tossing, eye-rolling and shoulder-shrugging, her singing (in a whiskey mezzo) of Little Joe and The Boys in the Backroom supplied the answer. Dietrich has. She makes it dazzlingly clear that the Dietrich legs, once more unsheathed, will still be taking her places...
Silver-haired, sharp-tongued, zealous Dr. Charles Giffin Pease, founder of the Non-Smokers' Protective League (he used to snatch cigars from the lips of subway smokers), celebrated his 85th birthday in his usual fashion, delivering a good-natured diatribe to newshawks against whiskey, wine, beer, capital punishment, the killing of animals, the eating of flesh. Said he: "The dear chickens, how they scream and struggle in their effort to break away from the hands of the assassin. If it were right to kill chickens there would be no expression of fear on the part of the chicken...