Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this bad news for U.S. conviviality the W.C.T.U. abruptly suggested that present liquor stocks be converted into undrinkable commercial alcohol. Drinkers did not have to take the ladies seriously-converting present whiskey stocks would take too long...
...Town sold 750 bales and bought 4,000 acres from a neighbor. He also mortgaged his 16,000 acres and his next year's crop to a Memphis cotton factor for $50,000. He gypped his hands out of "everything he thought they would stand . . . sold them cheap whiskey at bonded prices for what little money they did draw." In 1917 cotton went to 50?. Old Man Town, in his $75 custom-made boots, his faded wash pants, his wide Stetson and his 50? work gloves, was a Cotton King. Mrs. Town decided that her daughters should become Delta...
...Good day" in Japanese is Konnichi wa (literal translation: "As for today . . ."). Another idiom: to say "I want whiskey," Japanese observe politely Toki-doki uisuki ga hoshii desu ("Now and then whiskey is desirable...
...Giving the patient a couple of snifters of whiskey, "one of the best" circulatory stimulants. The old routine of "sticking a cigaret in a wounded soldier's mouth" is very dangerous. Reason: smoking, "without question," causes the small blood vessels to tighten...
...June, when Nazi submarines in twelve days sank 13 ships, five of them in one day in waters where Gough's boats had been operating. At approximately the same time, sabotage of the intelligence officer's plane was discovered. His room was ransacked and a bottle of whiskey in it was poisoned. The first sip of a drink poured out for his British colleague left the Briton paralyzed from the hips down for 24 hours...