Word: aqvavit
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...apartment in Manhattan's highceilinged, eminently respectable Hotel Ansonia, 20-odd massive, military-looking Danes sat one evening last fortnight around a barrel of Danish beer. The warriors were at ease. They toasted King Christian X, and many another, in glass after glass of clear, burning aqvavit.* After every glass of aqvavit, they downed a chaser of beer...
...business-school courses in Copenhagen. Though he diets in summer to keep his weight down to 225 Ibs., he takes his winter opera performances in his stride, often eats heavy meals before he goes to the opera house, smokes all the cigars he wants to, drinks his aqvavit neat. His brown-eyed, Bavarian-born wife Kleinchen (real name Maria Hacker), who could almost be tucked into one of the pockets of his massive vest, keeps him well fed and amused. One of the things about her that amuses him most is the way they met. Originally a cinema actress with...
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