Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Ambassador Duff-Cooper sat in low armchairs overlooking the Embassy gardens, comparing notes. Then Premier Paul Ramadier and dapper, London-tailored Foreign Minister Georges Bidault arrived with their experts. Eleven French and eleven Britons got their heads together over the veal,* adjourned to the garden veranda later for whiskey, brandy, and more happy talk...
National Spirit. In Bangkok, Siam, the director general of the government distillery indignantly scoffed at reports that his product had poisoned several tipplers, explained : "We never allow whiskey to leave our distillery until it has aged at least 28 hours...
Westbrook Pegler, once famed for his post-New Year's columns ("I must not mix champagne, whiskey and gin," repeated 50 times), returned to the scene of his festivities, startled his readers with 68 lines of Lardneresque poesy about a bad night in a fancy bar. Sample...
...hour after surgery (for hernia) Winston Churchill demanded, and got, a whiskey-&-soda and a cigar. Two days later wife Clementine reported he was "very chirpy. . . . In fact, the great trouble is to keep him . . . from being too chirpy...
...time the Cape Harting made her first port; Jessup went ashore to learn how Scotch whiskey tasted when served by a shuffling Fanti girl in a hot, dingy Gold Coast bar. Just when Jessup thought that he had licked the Machine, it literally blew up in his face. Novelist Loughlin's whale is still at large when his story ends, but readers will find stretches of remarkably brisk writing as well as murky theorizing, and large chunks of knowing merchant-marine chatter and engine-room lore...