Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whiskey peer's petite daughter stalling her huge Daimler Double Six in traffic at Picadilly Circus. . . A stout soprano anxiously cranking her Ford backward in the Corso Vittorio Emanuele. . . A bony art student swerving her lemon-colored Citroen into a swaying taxi to avoid a Paris pushcart. . . Perhaps the memory of such typical incidents as these influenced members of the International Commission on Air Navigation, who assembled in London last week, and were called upon to decide whether women should be licensed to operate commercial aircraft. A decision had to be made, and quickly, for Mme. Boland, famed French...
...details, unusually gruesome, included poisoned whiskey, picture wire, binding, gagging, taking turns at skull-smashing with a window-weight, and $104,000 in life insurance...
...tread a measure with some buxom Sussex wench along a merry primrose path. Soon he contrived to exceed all expectations. . . . Wenches were, of course, not lacking. Hardly a "pub" in Hastings is without its ruddy Sussex barmaid. Had Edward of Wales but stopped in to dash himself against a whiskey and soda, one of these good girls would have obliged. But he, a nonchalant prince, preferred to do his primrose treading openly with half the maids and matrons of the town. . . . They came by thousands, to stand along the streets, flushed and smiling, as Edward and his staff strode along...
...Corn + Whiskey = Democrats...
...March 28, on p. 1, has made a grave error† as to the effect of rain on Presidential aspirations. The old adage, honored from the time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, is: The more rain, the more corn; the more corn, the more whiskey; the more whiskey, the more Democrats...