Word: bourbon
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...sake, was a Hispanic reinvention. It was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans but then lost, and it did not come back in force until the end of the 16th century in northern Italy, Holland and Spain, all of which were under the sway of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty...
...child. Vetch floats over the book as a symbol of the true artist, the estate to which Grade aspires: "He was the first real writer I knew, because he was the first to have the midnight disease; to have the rocking chair and the faithful bottle of bourbon and the staring eye, lucid with insomnia even in the daytime...
...obsessed lawyer Sonny Seiler to local eccentrics like maid Gloria Daniels, who conducted tours of her employer's mansion, occasionally supplementing them with renditions of Stormy Weather, the book is a portrait of a gossipy and class-conscious Savannah--mannered, monied and soaked to its soul in the finest bourbon...
...list. The book, now being developed as a movie by Warner Brothers, chronicles a notorious 1981 Savannah murder case. But, Bellafante says, its host of eccentric characters amounts to "an engaging portrait of a gossipy and class-conscious Savannah -- mannered, monied and soaked to its soul in the finest bourbon...
...indeed one report shortly before that vote succinctly captured the conventional wisdom. Truman, it said, was "a woefully weak little man, a nice enough fellow, but wholly inept." Could Clinton ever become "Give 'Em Hell" Bill? Well, says Truman's biographer, David McCullough, "when Harry took a sip of bourbon, you knew he swallowed...