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Ration. In Wild Cat Corner, N.C., Mrs. Robert Ivey, charged with buying and reselling one gallon of whiskey every day, protested: "I drink every bit of that gallon myself...
...borrow money, figuring I've made a million dollars . . ." The old days, before success came, sometimes look pretty good to Faulkner: "I was a free man. Had one pair of pants, one pair of shoes, and an old trench coat with a pocket big enough for a whiskey bottle; Now I get stacks of letters, asking what I eat for breakfast, and what about curves and linear discreteness...
...Some of it is what the whole book imagines itself to be: plain common sense and practical advice. But there is also a great deal of pedantic nonsense whose prissiness would drive a climbing Milquetoast to despair, as he struggled always to say "telephone" (instead of "phone") and "whiskey and soda" (instead of "highball"). "TOMATO," says Author Fenwick firmly, "is better pronounced 'to-mah-to,' as ... it comes from the Spanish Toma-te,' which is pronounced 'tomahtay.'' This is a much hotter potato* than Author Fenwick seems to realize...
...ballroom that Dewey was on his way down for a victory speech before the television cameras. But Dewey did not appear. Doubt crept back. News came that Truman was taking a lead in Ohio and Iowa, was surging up in California. Deweymen hung on, drank large amounts of whiskey with glum, unhappy concentration...
...convict, discovered a trap door in the men's room leading to a false ceiling over the Bond Bar. He holed up every night before closing, emerged after hours to help himself to liquor and sandwiches, was not discovered until 30 days later when a customer noticed whiskey leaking through the ceiling. Said Fleming: "I never had it so good." ¶Burbank, Calif, called off plans for a $2,500 float to represent the city at Pasadena's Tournament of Roses, decided to spend the money toward a new sewer. ¶After a year of editorializing, letter-writing...