Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found Benedictine too saccharine, mixed Cognac with it for a drier beverage. In such abrupt mixing, however, brandy floats on rather than blends with Benedictine. The Manhattan liquor firm, of Julius Wile Sons & Co. spent two years persuading the Le Grand family that it could do a better job by aging the two together. Last week Julius Wile got the first shipment, bottled in the ancient bottle devised by the monks and bearing the traditional Benedictine symbol-D.O.M. (for Deo Optimo Maximo, "To God most good most great...
Died. Sir James MacBrien, 59, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; of cancer; in Toronto. A hard-bitten trooper who once said, "Security without peace is better than peace without security," Sir James mechanized the red-coated Mounties, giving them motorcars, airplanes, motorcycles, motorboats...
...Follett, who praised De Voto as a "gadfly to all manner of intellectual softies," hinted that he had outgrown his controversial gift, suggested it was time for him to quit, that he might now write "a superb work of the imagination on the scale of Anthony Adverse but incomparably better written and more soundly American...
Both waded through the menu with vigor. Sure helps the appetite, one observed. Yeh, and breaks up a cold quickly too when your lungs aren't all congested, added the other. They paused after their coffee and stared at one another intently. You're looking better, said the one. Yes, and you look healthier, too, agreed his partner, glancing at a friend blowing smoke rings at the next table. The other looked too. Yes, it's better this way, he said without conviction. They exchanged understanding looks...
...only trouble with it all, lamented the healthy-looking one, is that I don't feel so good. Same here, moaned the one who was looking better, in fact I feel like hell. So together they hailed a passing waitress for a tobacco slip...