Word: bourbonized
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...first Jackson Day dinner since 1944 turned out to be Harry Truman's kind of party. Though Washington's Mayflower Hotel had put out its best napery, the affair had the informality of a barbecue. Fortified with bourbon, 1,800 Democrats uncomplainingly ate the 700-calorie "austerity dinner" (tomato soup, baked chicken, potatoes, salad and one oatmeal cookie) for which they had paid $400 apiece. They whistled, whooped and slapped backs. Soprano Grace Moore rose with a flash of jewels, and sang a hillbilly song. Leon Henderson gave her a cigar...
Latinos had always found New Orleans simpatico. It was linked to them by the traditions of Bourbon Spain. Its easy graces, Gallic sauces, gaiety and gambling had been a consolation to Latin American political exiles since Jean Lafitte made common cause with the struggling republic of Cartagena...
...evenings, over a cup of jasmine tea or a Bourbon oldfashioned, the Special Envoy would mull over the day's progress. In slippers and dressing gown, he would sit at his desk in the study bedroom, where two photographs of. Mrs. Marshall looked at him reassuringly, and pen terse reports to Washington...
...Kindelan (first to the Canaries, then to house confinement in Madrid) and on his record in keeping the army out of World War II's losing camp, he has thus far persuaded the generals to let him decide the time for a restoration. Meanwhile, he enjoys the old Bourbon palaces, hunts and fishes in the old Bourbon parks. When his wife entertains at tea, a butler in white gloves serves Señora Franco first, then doffs the gloves to pour for the guests...
...Britain stays quiet-and rains bring good spring crops-Franco might yet slide through. He turned his fat back on Don Juan of Bourbon...