hundred-proof

As a bartender, he was full of wisdom, fantastic tales and hundred-proof charm.

On a darker note, the Pine St. Old Fashioned laces hundred-proof Old Overholt Bonded Rye with coffee-coconut syrup and cardamom.

Timberlake’s appearance may well be another signal of a mounting flirtation with the genre, but it turns out that the bigger news, and star, of the night was Stapleton, with his over-the-shoulder hair, outlaw beard, and hundred-proof rough-honey voice.

As he talked, he made clear his special role in the 1960 campaign: of all the leading candidates and contenders, he is the only one unashamedly setting himself out in the fine old-fashioned role of the poor boy* who values above mother's milk the purest, hundred-proof liberalism, bottled 25 years ago in the bond of the New Deal.

Charlie Sprague, a schoolteacher and Washington state school official before he went into newspaper work, mellowed the Statesman's traditional language but kept the hundred-proof kick when he bought the paper in 1929.