Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lionel Johnson come out very drunk from the Café Royal, and hail the first passing perambulator. Santayana met this young poet at Oxford. Johnson looked 16, was small, pale, with small, sunken, blinking eyes, sensitive mouth, pale brown hair, and rebellious ideas. He kept a jug of whiskey on the table between two books-Leaves of Grass and Les Fleurs du Mai-and planned to become a Catholic as soon as he was of age. He became an Irish rebel instead. When Santayana saw him ten years later, he was a tragic spectacle. Johnson still looked very young...
From Right to Left. In Seattle, when a whiskey-toting sailor jaywalked into her automobile, Genevieve Thompson stopped, took as witnesses the names of those riding in a car she had just passed. The witnesses, who included the local traffic judge, city attorney, substitute traffic judge, head of the Police Safety Education Unit, and two traffic council officials, let the sailor go on his way, gave Genevieve a ticket for wrong-side driving...
...Joseph S. Fay has often been called a racketeer. But calling Joe Fay names, or trying to unseat him as international vice president of the Union of Operating Engineers, was like blowing peas at an elephant. Sometimes he simply turned his beefy back. Some times, enraged or full of whiskey, he used his fists. Once he slugged the A.F. of L.'s David Dubinsky; another time he kicked in a minor labor leader's cheek bone. But neither taunts, rivals nor the law really bothered Joe Fay much...
None of these proposals, he intoned righteously, constitute a violation of the Little Steel formula "contrary ... to our literary pundits and Government people who look into a whiskey glass and tell what the United Mine Workers are going...
...network program directors. Their job is to get new and unknown tunes performed often enough to catch the popular ear and taste. To get their songs played, pluggers may have to bribe, cajole, suffer insults, golf with crooners, take conductors to the beach, keep blues singers in flowers, whiskey or cigarets...