Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grinned a soldier-actor when he picked up a whiskey bottle: "Hmmm-there musta been officers here." Other soldiers went through the village demonstrating correct procedure, leaving suspicious buildings to specially trained troops...
...young, naive Frenchman, Joseph Timar, goes out to work at the Equatorial African trading post of Libreville. At the town's only hotel, he stares at the grinning masks on the walls, cranks up a phonograph with a big, old-fashioned horn, drinks his first "peg" of whiskey and feels like a young rakehell. The feeling increases when Proprietress Adèle comes to wake him, wearing her usual black silk dress and no underclothing. Mutual captivation follows instantly...
Longer than any ruddy Briton likes to talk about, there has been no authentic Scotch whiskey on sale in Britain; practically all bottled stock was shipped to the U.S. in exchange for war material. Last week a news item parched British tongues more than ever...
Liberal Lord Rosebery, Regional Commissioner for Scotland, announced that some 17,000,000 gallons of aging Scotch whiskey have now been buried in "abandoned caves and other remote and inaccessible places." Lord Rosebery, who has a tasteful appreciation for good art, good horses and good whiskey, ruefully added: "A single enemy plane . . . with no idea of specific target, dropped a single bomb which fell plumb on . . . 70,000 gallons. That shows what we're up against...
Nightmare (Universal) is a swift, amusing, amiable melodrama in which murder and Nazi secret agents are no great hazard for sultry Starlet Diana Barrymore. Promoted from pigtails (TIME, Oct. 5), she handles with easy competence a handsome negligee and a whiskey bottle. (She uses the bottle as an anti-Fascist weapon...