Word: aquavit
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...long northern summer days almost wiped out the night. The meadows were fairytale green, and the air was clear as aquavit. But the idyllic season was broken by two alarming intrusions...
...evening over, jovial, gargantuan (225-lb.) Tenor Melchior and his pocket-sized (110-lb.) wife, Maria ("Kleinchen") took 85 guests to the Swedish Three Crowns restaurant, drank aquavit (Scandinavian 88-proof potato liquor) and beer chasers. Said he: "Now I can take a deep breath and start life again...
Swedish Snaps. The polar bears in Stockholm's Scansen have not had their full rations of raw meat for three years. Neither have the Swedes had their sill & snaps (herring & aquavit) as often as before. They have managed to maintain their national Thursday evening meal of pea soup and pancakes-and they have managed to stay...
...whole lot of them go to the Harvard games for lack of anything better to do, but the minute they're over, they congregate in huge Minnesota parties in Leverett or Lowell. They serve themselves drinks which taste like a cross between Minneapolis grain whiskey and Swedish aquavit. They turn the radio on to the Minnesota game and raise the volume to the limit. Then the whole bunch of them sit around yelling "ski-yu-mah" and singing "Minnesota, Hats Off to Thee" until the Golden Horde has trounced another poor opponent. Woe to the hapless Nebraskan or Indianan...
...waitress named Jenny Swanson (Joan Blondell), who has big gold-digging ideas but not the true killer instinct. Jenny ends up as a sort of middle-aged Shirley Temple, patching up a flock of romantic tatters, curing rich old Olaf Brand's gouty hypochondria with extra blankets and aquavit, reminding him: "Swedes need to sweat." Nearest Jenny ever gets to Paris high life is Manhattan's sotty El Morocco, where she surveys all the bibbing and napery with a waitress's eye, concludes: "I bet this place has a lot of dirty linen...