Word: brook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Socialites of Manhattan's swank Brook Club tendered a test dinner last week to one of the chief arbiters of French wine elegance. M. le Baron Marcel Fouquier is president of the Academic des Oenophiles (wine lovers) which yields in dignity and discrimination not even to the Academic Francaise...
...Brook Club gave M. le Baron no wine from U. S. vineyards. "I have not tasted any yet, and I am sorry!" he exclaimed. "As a Frenchman I know that it must be California wines which will give your common people their first taste for something better than their beer, their whiskey or their...
Object of the Brook Club was to spread a post-Prohibition repast equal to any that Paris' No. 1 Oenophile can get at home. Next day, after mature reflection, M. le Baron positively affirmed that this had been done: "Never in Paris itself have I had a nobler meal. The whole perfect, even to the condition of each wine! And now, after so memorable an evening, I must really taste some California wines...
...special Long Island R. R. trains that ran out from Manhattan in 40 minutes, orchids were peddled instead of candy, cigarets or papers. At Meadow Brook, F. Ambrose Clark appeared, as is his custom, in a black-and-yellow tallyho. Famed Poloist-Comedian Will Rogers, just back from a round-the-world trip, motored straight to Meadow Brook to greet the members of the West team that had already lost one game in the two-out-of-three polo series against the East. Said he: "It's all right, boys, I'm here...
...socialite crowd (20,000) in Meadow Brook's robin's-egg blue stands was still shouting when the teams rode out for the last chukker. West was still flabbergasted, East too tired to do much more than defend its goal. Score: East 10. West...