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Boston maintained the New England rum tradition by popularizing Spanish Main ($3 a pint) and New England ($2.75). Old James E. Pepper bourbon cost $3.25 a pint. A Great Western champagne sold for $3.50 a quart...
...liquor business was the whiskey business. In 1913 the U. S. drank 135,000,000 gal. of rye and Bourbon, 5,000,000 gal. of gin, 1,500,000 gal. of Scotch, a trickle of Irish. Rum, wine, brandy, liqueurs cut no figure. The Prohibition liquor business was an alcohol business and liquor consumption rose to at least 200,000,000 gal. a year. No one knows how much the U. S. taste has changed in the era of cocktails, bad Scotch and gin-&-gingenle. That in 1934 the U. S. will drink at least...
Scotch. Rye and Bourbon are the chief whiskies of North America. Bourbon starts with corn and a dash of small grains. Irish starts with barley but particular Irishmen always drink Scotch. Scotch also starts with barley but the ingredients are better, notably its water. And Scotch is the chief whiskey of all the rest of the world...
Three hundred years of experiment, largely at cross purposes, has left the language requirements of Harvard College a structure ready to crumble, like the Bourbon regime, at the first touch of reason. They have intruded their chaos into the distinction between bachelors of arts and bachelors of science until it amounts, essentially, to nothing more than an innocence of Latin. On the other hand, they permit the graduation each year of a large body of men without real knowledge of any language or literature save their own. The situation has come to be complicated by so many factors, obscured...
...Basil Zaharoff married 55-year-old Maria del Pilar Antonia Angela Patrocinio Simona de Muguiro y Beruete, Duchess de Villa-franca de los Caballeros. Unable to divorce her insane husband Prince Francisco de Bourbon, Duke de Villafranca de los Caballeros, cousin of Alfonso XIII, for over 30 years she was Sir Basil's mistress, lived with him during her last years in the villa near Paris built by the late Leopold II, King of the Belgians, for his morganatic wife Baroness de Vaughan. Lady Zaharoff died...