Word: bourbon
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After the second drink of bourbon, a Southerner is apt to start talking about those awful freight rates. The subject is no joke in the South. For Southerners claim, and with rebel yells, that discriminatory freight rates have stunted their economic growth and made them mere colonials of the imperial East...
...five richest men. He moved to Europe, lived like a prince among a fawning nobility that overlooked his cholo beginnings. From Paris, Patiño managed Bolivian politics, elected presidents, juggled Cabinet ministers. He had himself appointed Bolivian Minister to France. Son Antenor married the stately Cristina de Bourbon, niece of dethroned Alfonso XIII of Spain...
...procedure and tactics; the President is now letting Congress handle the tough ones. But the biggest change of all is in Harry Truman himself. He has a new sense of the dignity of his office. His sure diplomacy at Mexico City was a long step from his early bourbon-drinking, poker-playing junketing, his wistful lurking on the fringes of Congress. He has a new confidence and a new formula: be natural. He likes his job and no longer asks anyone to pray...
...free-spending war years, millions were suddenly finding a kind of savage satisfaction in refusing to buy. Despite the most honeyed words of Vogue and other fashion magazines, women in all U.S. cities were betraying no sudden fascination for the new clothes with longer skirts. Expensive Scotch and bonded bourbon sat untouched in liquor stores-the U.S. had gotten used to cheaper blends. Detroit used car lots were jammed with new automobiles for resale at fabulous prices, but almost nobody was having...
...paid Advertisements. . . . You cannot buy a copy of PUBLICK OCCURRENCES. It is not exposed on the Public Marts, nor is it hawked about by street urchins . . . but we might be inveigled into a bit of Honest Barter. ., . . If you produce a joint of Ham, a shaving Lotion, a good Bourbon, a jug of maple syrup or any other good and honest item then we are sometimes in the mood to have...