Word: bourbonized
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There are, of course, bourbon whiskey and rye whiskey. There is, I am credibly informed, Irish whiskey. And, above all, there is-for the comfort of men of good will within and without the British Empire-Scotch whisky...
...TIME yields to no one (certainly not to Author Arlen) in its admiration for Scotch but likes bourbon and rye too; and life is too short to spell whiskey two ways...
...work is done (but the strain of the day still lingers in mind and muscle), when the restless dust starts to settle back on the cotton fields, men gather on verandahs and wharves to sit and talk while they watch the bullbats nervously darting and swooping around the chimneys. Bourbon with water from the branch is in order-and low-voiced, scattered talk of high politics. Such a talk Jimmy Byrnes calls a "bullbat session." He loves them. In 1946 the bullbat session-bourbon, branch water and all-became (like the green baize and champagne of another day) an international...
...idealist once, himself. "In 1918 I was a follower of Woodrow Wilson. I gloried in his idealism and in the magnificent effort he made to build the peace upon the Covenant of the League of Nations." But a lot of branch water has gone into the bourbon since then. Jimmy may still have Wilsonian visions; certainly, he can still recognize and use the traditional U.S. political principles. But Jimmy, an intensely practical man, is leading no crusades. He subscribes to the doctrine that "politics is the art of the possible." He tries to keep from getting behind or ahead...
Such incidents gave Bermúdez a reputation for a close sense of duty almost from the day he entered politics in the sleazy border town of Ciudad Juárez, where he had made a $6 million fortune distilling Waterfill Frazier bourbon whisky. Within two weeks of his election as mayor in 1942, he had launched such a housecleaning as Mexico had rarely seen. He cracked down on a free-flowing traffic in narcotics, stolen autos and women, kicked grafters out of the city hall. He was the sort of independent President Alemán wanted to bring order...