Word: whiskeys
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...week's end, as a new snow storm began, 50,000 cattle were still in danger, hundreds of ranchers were still living on black coffee, whiskey and sandwiches, still fighting their battle against the elements. Army planes scoured the prairies, dropped skis and supplies to isolated families who tramped out distress signals in the snow. There were no reports from sheepmen, who follow their flocks for weeks at a time. But Coloradoans knew that eventually, as after every heavy snow storm, dead sheepherders would be found where they had fallen, with their storm-driven flocks...
...closet door, came up with a knitted crimson affair, and carefully knotted it between button-down collars. "Mustn't forget the other thing either," he said to no one in particular, and reaching tenderly into the towel and sheet drawer, he came up triumphantly with a pint of whiskey. He eased this into the left hand pocket of the coat with the mousy fur collar. "All set," said...
...arrests were prompted by an OPA investigation (Canadian and U.S. officials cooperate on price matters) after numerous U.S. liquor consumers complained about Harwood's price. OPA, close-mouthed about the whole affair, was still trying to determine just when United Distillers began to make Harwood's whiskey. Apparently, it was made only for export. Upwards of an estimated two million cases have been shipped across the border since 1944 to parched Americans...
Steinbeck, all of Denmark is at your feet." A customs guard at the border demanded whether Steinbeck carried whiskey (Ans.: "Lots-I live on it"), cigarets (Ans.: "I chain-smoke"), decided: "In your case that's fine, as long as I may have your autograph...
Happy Birthday (by Anita Loos; produced by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) shows what a frightening assortment of drinks in a Newark ginmill did to-and for-a prim, plain-looking little librarian (Helen Hayes). On any realistic basis, abstemious Addie Bemis, loaded with pink ladies, whiskey, sloe gin and champagne, would doubtless be violently sick by 10 o'clock; but Happy Birthday is far from realistic, and by 11 o'clock gaily gyrating Addie has copped herself a husband...