Word: bourbonized
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...House of Bourbon's golden fleur-de-lis dropped low last week. For days Generalissimo Francisco Franco's great yellow Mercedes-Benz, manned with chaffeur and aide, had waited in Lisbon to carry Don Juan to Spain. Juan had hesitated. Then suddenly, Franco's car was gone...
...Kindelan was ordered off to "confinement" in the Canaries, where once the Republic had tried to confine Franco. Franco's old friend Lieut. General Juan Vigon Suerodiaz moved into the Chief of Staff post. Command of the Valladolid region went to Don Juan's unfriendly cousin, Francisco Bourbon, Duke of Seville...
...appears that the loudest applause was reserved for the various verbal lashings dealt the Senator, by everyone eventually, even Cousin Roy. Yet it would have been quite consistent with the earlier portrayal of the old Bourbon if he had been led to recant his bigotry. But one failing more irksome on reflection than apparent on sight, is perhaps a symptom of the in growth of prejudice, in this instance to the very actors, or the director. A strained match between Howard and Alice seems to be justification enough for several chilly kisses, while the warm and central love between Nevvy...
Like many an old-school newspaperman, George W. Greene, publisher of the Waupun (Wis.) Leader-News, suffered from a familiar occupational disease. His own peculiar symptom was a devotion to what he calls New England boiled dinners (bourbon & water) for breakfast. Now he wanted his 3,127 readers to know that he was a changed man. Wrote he: "This is probably the strangest editorial you ever read. It is the strangest one I ever expect to write...
...more awareness of what the bomb meant to humanity, in good and evil. But a few weeks later he was again treating it with an oddly offhand air. He chose a fishing lodge at Tennessee's Reelfoot Lake, an informal "bull session" with newsmen against a background of bourbon and poker, to announce that the U.S. intended to keep the secret of the bomb to itself...