Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia and Alaska. But meantime Ambassadors were a drug on the market. In Washington the German diplomats bought trunks; the Japanese sent out for food, were no longer trusted by their grocer, and had to pass the hat to pay for it. They sat around the Embassy drinking whiskey gloomily. Their American chauffeur, driving out for the last time, was jailed for drunkenness...
...gunman held up a filling station, escaped after phoning his wife: "I'll be home to supper in a few minutes." In Chicago two gunmen robbed a bartender and four tavern customers of $51.55, then served drinks to the crowd, did a specialty dance, loaded their car with whiskey, wine and beer, passed out $1 bills, and departed...
...Kansas City last week, police treated 15 motorists to a free jag. The drivers took two-ounce shots of whiskey every half-hour, meanwhile tried to sort playing cards, drive and back police cars in narrow painted lanes. Purpose: to determine at what stage of drunkenness a driver is at his worst...
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden revealed last week that British-U.S. relations are frequently buoyed up by Scotch whiskey. Having told a luncheon party that he saw U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant "almost every evening," he added...
...When the air-raid warning sounds, I take the Bible from the shelf and read the Twenty-Third Psalm. Then I put up a wee bit prayer. Then I take a wee drap o' whiskey to steady my nerves. Then I get in bed and pull up the covers. And then I tell Hitler to go to hell...