Word: whiskeys
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Strangely enough, several of these characters lose part of their whiskey-soaked charm when they make the trip to Hollywood. Strangely, that is, because they are played by some of the best movie actors. Marlon Brando, as Sky Masterson, acts well enough, but his style seems cramped by the good manners the role requires. Moreover, he can not really sing. Frank Sinatra, however, who can, has fairly little opportunity, and his Nathan Detroit comes out much more sullen than worried. Only Vivian Blaine is at her best as a nightclub singer who has been engaged to Detroit for fourteen years...
Calvert Distillers Corporation President W. W. Wachtel pointed out that moonshiners can't even make good whiskey because their operations are neither large nor modern enough. Their spirits contain too much nerve-deadening amylalcohol, which causes sickening hangovers, he said...
...Manhattan, a rare species of old bottle was put on permanent display in an American glassmaking exhibit of the New York Historical Society. Its embossed inscription: "E. C. Booz's Old Cabin Whiskey." With a new spot in the public's eye, the cabin-shaped vessel, its neck resembling a chimney, was likely to further the popular misconception that E.C.'s surname spawned the most common synonym for strong spirits...
...Marin] shook his head slowly. 'Nurse,' he said after a moment, 'please bring us some whiskey...
...movie trying to prove that each is a dirtier guy than the other. But they so obviously relish their parts as bad men that the intended touches of the sinister and sadistic fall to the level of good, wholesome farce. Even when a renegade American brandishes a broken whiskey bottle in Cooper's face and growls, "My father always said the bottle could ruin a man," an aura of good-natured jollity pervades the film. The cockles of the heart warm perceptibly when Lancaster's vicious cut-throats drag a group of innocent children into a building as hostages...