Word: whiskeys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...look doubtfully at the copy of Sports Illustrated lying beside your sewing basket, Virginia. This is not the dapper-looking, sharp-eyed man with his arms full of cigarette cartons and whiskey bottles that you've been seeing pictures of. This man is old and fat and bumbling, and does not look very assertive. His is not booming out hardy greetings, but is wistfully picking up his lost buttons and rubbing the soot off his well-worn suit...
...York Herald Tribune: "The saloons of Virginia City," he rhapsodizes, "then and now the drinkingest community in all the wide, wonderful, boozy world-what profligate enchantments were not latent in the mere roll call of their names, perfumed with intimate association and Old Noble Treble Crown Whiskey! There were Pat Lynch's Place, The Old Magnolia, The Smokery. Gentry & Crittenden's, and the Howling Wilderness, a premises which never at any hour of the 24 betrayed the promise of commotional doings implicit in its name...
...which attracted more members of the College in the winter term than any other, again sent its best players Northward ostensibly to compete in the Canadian Championships. The preceding winter, one of the Crimson players had won the tournament, but his main objective in competing had been to bootleg whiskey back across the line into the country...
...retains his amiability. His story: after one unsuccessful attempt to reach the area, they took another route. When the car came to a gorge Wilson got out alone to continue the journey on foot. Holland went back to town, took a nap in his trailer, bought a bottle of whiskey and spent a gay evening with some prospector friends...
...moment of historic inspiration, David Owen once organized a society called "The Sons of the Whiskey Rebellion" to invigorate a staid, scholarly convention. Though accomplishing it purpose, the society was short-lived; it lasted only three days and three nights. But, as most of his students will testify, Owen's capacity for enlivening history has survived. A descendant of two Baptist ministers and one teacher, Owen lectures in a style reminiscent of both the preacher and the scholar. He adds, characteristically, a strong dose of humor, often sardonic, to keep the state of British history in lively repair...