Those with a little cash to spend, who want to be modern and sophisticated, as advertisements suggest, buy imported whiskey and brandy.
Lasher was in a bar that Paul happened to go into to buy Irish whiskey and struck up a conversation.
He would have sold his soul for money to buy whiskey.
He buys whiskey instead, and returns to his pregnant wife, who herself had given up on show business for him, and whom he abuses.
The old man uses his share to buy raw whiskey and dirty pictures.
Talk's cheap, but it takes money to buy whiskey.
Failing that, he needs his son's wages so he can buy whiskey.
Maybe he stopped for lunch, maybe to buy whiskey, maybe a lot of things.
I bought Irish whiskey for the unwed father.