Word: whiskeys
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Goat's Milk & Whiskey. John's shaggy white mane and beard, bowing among the perfumed, chattering sea of well-dressed gallerygoers at his show, attracted more attention than his paintings. Roaring with good will, he played the lion for an hour, then ducked out to his favorite den, a pub. The time he has spent in pubs adds up to several of his three-score-&-ten years. For reasons of health John now ' alternates liquor in London with goat's milk in the country, but he much prefers the city drink...
...through the hot morning they streamed into Baton Rouge-wool-hatted farmers, "Cajuns" with whiskey on their hips, gamblers, cattlemen, oilmen, old folks and bobby-soxers. They came by train, bus, automobile and even on yachts. The Longs were coming back into power: Huey's greying, gravel-voiced brother Earl was being inaugurated governor of Louisiana...
...improve on everything Huey did." The entertainment went on & on. There was a baseball game, swimming exhibition and music by countless bands. There was also some unscheduled entertainment. Children dropped buttermilk cartons from the top of the stadium and one woman was conked by a falling whiskey bottle...
Generations of mining men knew Butte, Mont, as an "island of easy money surrounded by oceans of whiskey." For 70 years, the Butte district-a mile high and almost five miles square-supplied the U.S. with one-third of its copper. But in recent years Butte (pop. 40,000) has seen little easy money. Though Butte still has much high-grade ore left, it is getting harder to mine. Since 1940, 8,000 had left Butte for better paying jobs...
...Forest also knew the Southern admiration for virility: "If you will fight, if you are strong and skillful enough to kill your antagonist, if you can govern or influence the common herd ... if you stand by your opinions unflinchingly, if you do your level best on whiskey, if you are a devil of a fellow with women, if, in short, you show vigorous masculine attributes, he will grant you his respect...