Word: bottlesful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rita Hayworth dropped in on the sunny south of France after a little Paris shopping. Ready for any emergency, she had bought, among other items: 17 evening dresses, 20 bottles of perfume, a case of champagne, a monkey, a collected works of Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.
Along the way, Gunther gleaned many a curious fact. The annual per capita Coca-Cola consumption in New Orleans is 120 bottles; in New York City, six bottles. The names of the New England towns of Berlin, Calais, Paris and Peru are locally pronounced Berlin, Callus, Pay-rus, Pee-ru...
Rita Hay worth dropped in on the sunny south of France after a little Paris shopping. Ready for any emergency, she had bought, among other items: 17 evening dresses, 20 bottles of perfume, a case of champagne, a monkey, the collected works of Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.
¶ A portable cabinet for infants' bottles, nipples, etc.; it can also be used, in a pinch, as a utility camp stove.
Free ports, comparatively new to the U.S., have been common in Europe since Hanseatic League days. Merchants can bring goods into a free port without paying duties and without posting bonds; they can store their merchandise, sort it and repack it for export. Only if & when the goods enter the...