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Incidentally, Shuttleworth is one of the two men in the Wingate outfit who wear monocles. He is a master at monocle manipulation. During a hazardous plane ride at treetop altitude and a subsequent bottle of Scotch whiskey in celebration of our safe return, the monocle remained clear-eyed and steady and was never once removed. To me this was a clear demonstration of steel nerves...
Diagnosing the U.S. state of mind repeatedly for 39 wartime months, Government officials of all ranks and stations have almost always discovered alarming symptoms: jitteriness after Pearl Harbor, overconfidence after the drive across France, a lamentable tendency to spend money on whiskey instead of on war bonds. With a mixture of guilt and frustration peculiar to the civilian soul in wartime, the nation was willing to admit that its patriotic conscience was not completely clear. But last week-while dutifully opening its mouth for the latest dose of official criticism-the vast patient could not stifle a groan of protest...
Stores, theaters, banks were still closed. Such business as existed was conducted in dusty bazaars or hole-in-the-wall shops. Boys offered fifths of rum and bad Philippine whiskey. A pretty girl named Carmelita Gloria hawked 1941 Liberty, magazines and Horatio Alger novels. But most of Manila was engaged in the elementary tasks of finding something to eat, and, now that sleep was possible...
...been good for a laugh in vaudeville. Generations of hoofers and comedians used it to epitomize U.S. hick towns. But though Peoria, Ill. lies in the corn belt, it is a pretty big town (pop. 105,087). It is also a river town, and it grew up around a whiskey keg, not a cracker barrel. Last week, after a new city primary election, Peoria had occasion to remind itself of its free-&-easy tradition once again...
...born makes more than a few hours' difference. . . ." So he was all for turning diet over to that "very efficient monitor-the appetite." He once shocked the dry state of Kansas, where he taught medicine, by declaring that what the country needed was a good 5? shot of whiskey...