Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dartmouth Saturday was clear and in the sixties, which was amazing since it had been raining and cool the rest of the week. We picked up a pint of Southern Comfort and a box of whiskey sour mix from Harvard Pro, made about a quart of whiskey sour and sneaked it into the game in a paper bag. We got there a little early and started on the drinks...
...Soldier's Field afternoon offers other diversions. Keep an eye on the band. Its iconoclastic half-time shows sometimes miss their mark, but do provide welcome relief from high-stepping and intricate formations of the typical university band. Its second-half rendition of the Harvard fight song on emptied whiskey bottles never fail to inspire...
MOUNTAIN SPIRITS: A Chronicle of Corn Whiskey from King James' Ulster Plantation to America 's Appalachians and the Moonshine Life by JOSEPH EARL DABNEY 242 pages. Scribners...
...Whiskey and freedom gang the-gither," declared Robert Burns-a poet and drinking man who turned out many a verse against Scotland's "Act of Excyse." Usquebaugh distillers in Scotland and Ulster generally felt the way Burns did. In the early 1700s most of them migrated to the American colonies, bringing their whisky-making tools and techniques with them. By 1750, moonshine was a necessity of life on the frontier, and brewing corn whisky was a major industry. From fusty books and firsthand interviews with oldtimers, with many facts and much affection, Joseph Dabney has put together a splendid...
...newspaper to show their detachment from city life, but their modern morals have penetrated too deeply to be dismissed by such a ritual. The forest, reduced to a dizzying madness in Ray's shots from a car window, is polluted by both profane and commercialized love, burnt out by whiskey and corruption...