Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carnegie used to order Dewar's Scotch whiskey in 50 or 60-gallon casks. Reporters, touring the wine cellar, found pigeonholes marked Sparkling Moselle, Champagne, and Marsala, now empty. The wine bottles, like the era, were long since gone. Looking back, that past day now seemed like an era of happy irresponsibility, when no man had to account for his riches-though, like Carnegie, some of the wealthy, e.g., Andrew Mellon, John D. Rockefeller and Julius Rosenwald, had indeed accounted for theirs in handsome gifts to charity, art and education. Ever since the Widow Carnegie died in 1946 (Carnegie...
...Federal Alcohol Tax Unit announced that fewer than 3% of New York's 20,000 bars water their whiskey...
...Gooderham Acheson, now 55, is a tall, tweedy mixture of dignity and good humor, and by no means as stuffy as his pukka sahib mustache makes him look. His British-born father, Edward Campion Acheson, was Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut, his mother was a daughter of the wealthy Gooderham whiskey distilling family in Canada. Young Dean went to Groton, on to Yale for his A.B., then to Harvard for his law degree. He got into government as a protege of Harvard's Felix Frankfurter and a secretary to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis...
...breadth. They used their parachutes for roofs, stripped the ailerons from their plane to hold them up. They used the C-47's plywood ventilator for a center beam (it broke), and the power plant for lighting. Air Force planes dropped them everything they could use-playing cards, whiskey, clothes, magazines, a Christmas dinner of roast turkey and pumpkin pie, a Christmas tree. Some even talked to their families in Greenland by radio...
...Hogan's spell is as remarkable as the one the great Walter ("The Haig") Hagen used to cast over the opposition in the relatively relaxed 1920s, when many a champion took his golf with three fingers of whiskey...