Word: bourbon
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There are many different Mr. Eliots-the shy and the friendly, the sad and the serene and the Mr. Eliot who expresses complex thoughts in complex (if catchy) rhythms. There is even a human Mr. Eliot who loves Bourbon and the Bible, both of which he used to keep on his night table (in austerity England he settles for pink...
...food, drink and women. He left just enough money for beautiful Mrs. Richardson to keep the fine old house and her social prestige, and to send young Percy and Byron to the University of Virginia. While Jim piled up a fortune in oil, handsome Percy Richardson went in for bourbon, Negro women, homosexuals and, finally, suicide. Byron was content to be a small-town lawyer and live in a cottage. Mrs. Richardson died of cancer, unreconciled to the fact that her daughter had deserted her class...
...weeks after the report was printed, the French government said not a word. A few French newspapers hinted at serious charges against Revers and his friend, retired General Charles Emmanuel Mast. In the cozy Chez Albert, where France's deputies dine in the shadow of the grimy Palais-Bourbon, hushed conversation turned more & more to I'affaire des généraux. Then the scandal burst into open flame, and Premier Georges Bidault hastily summoned Defense Minister Rene Pleven back from London to attend a special night cabinet session on the matter...
...Cloud, France) reported: "Our school was at the crossroads of the world and a number of our students [who studied TIME] in those early days have since appeared in headlines in TIME. The Duke of Edinburgh, as the little exiled Prince Philip of Greece, Princess Anne de Bourbon (she was more of a tomboy than a student), John Eisenhower...
...heart to listen to his head, a crusader who has learned when to fight and when to compromise. Two of the Senators he most respects are Republicans: New Hampshire's able and liberal Charles Tobey, and Ohio's conservative Robert Taft, whom Douglas regards as a Bourbon, but also as a man of honesty and intellect...