Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Readers of TIME will enjoy this characteristic bit of repartee attributed to the "venerable Baron Dewar, who claims that whiskey is his muse...
...About 1,000 visitors filed into the prison after nightfall. As the rule requires, all were searched. Ten, it was discovered, carried flasks of whiskey. Warden Lewis E. Lawes commented: "If you searched the ordinary theatre audience of that size it's quite likely you'd find more than that...
...Theresa Schwarz, village belle; in Sotine, Jugoslavia. There were 2,750 invited and uninvited guests who consumed, during nine days and nights of celebration, six cows, 16 calves, 600 chickens, 300 turkeys, 20,000 quarts of beer, 10,000 quarts of wine, 200 quarts of plum whiskey, then they fell into haystacks, slept two days and two nights...
Crossing the channel to Britain, one finds as dean of the distilling peers the venerable Baron Dewar. His whiskeys fire throttles on five continents. About him there is no paradox, no equivocation. To the core of his very liver Lord Dewar is a practicing and preaching wet. He claims that whiskey is his Muse. Without her stimulus the Noble Lord believes he never could have produced his famed "Dewarisms." Many persons consider this fact a most powerful argument against spirits. Observers may judge for themselves from sample "Dewarisms" from the latest batch proudly released by Baron Dewar...
...wishes to marry. In the second act there is a party at which the engagement is announced; and Linda, the charming sister, invites friends whom she likes better than the correct friends of her family to a private party of her own which she arranges, with bottles of whiskey, in what used to be the nursery. Here two fantastically funny friends of hers invent flowering amusements; then the music box plays and Linda dances with Johnny Case, her sister's fiance...