Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Ties. In Denver, Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Beers asked court permission to change their names to something better suited to their temperance work. In Chicago, Nunlay Boose and son Joseph were accused of stealing a case of whiskey...
Glamour Magazine has caught up with Carstairs Whiskey in the current issue and passed the punchbowl to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, associate professor of History, as "a man who cares." Sighting along the barrel of a trusty briar, he is pictured "getting the future in focus" in the current issue...
Even Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Gromyko got into the act. Said he, twinkling like a Russian tea-tray: "Some attribute [the 'saucers'] to the British for exporting too much of their Scotch whiskey into the United States; some say it is a Russian discus thrower training for the Olympic games who does not realize his own strength...
...Sash Me Father Wore." TIME'S correspondent last week attributed the relative quiet of the celebration to "the desire of the Ulster Government to maintain the status quo, and to the shortage of whiskey." July 12, 1947 in Belfast was not entirely dry, however. As the parade made the turn by the block-long Arcadia Bar, many marchers took a short cut and a pint of Guinness, and joined the parade again as it stomped along singing The Sash Me Father Wore (which was orange, of course...
...could take their pick of a dozen theories: the murder involved a fight over stolen jewelry; it was gang war for control of a news service to bookies; it was tied up with a West Coast shipping strike; it was war over distribution of a certain brand of Scotch whiskey; it was "The Syndicate," roiled over Bugsy's losses as manager of its $6,000,000 Flamingo Club at Las Vegas. To some confused readers it seemed that there must have been a lot of people standing outside the rose-trellised window that night, contending for the privilege...