Word: chianti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a function) is by being placed where people gather to sit naturally, smoke, and talk in a normal, not a hushed, tone of voice. By introducing it to more familiar and pleasant surroundings it is not meant, however, the people should lounge around and "absorb" art while drinking Chianti in a smoke-field room. That a happy medium between the Bohemian aesthete and the straight-laced scholar can be reached is being very successfully proven by Leverett House. Its persistent attempts to remove art from the closet atmosphere of a gallery and place it within the warm and friendly...
...Addis Ababa crowd, who had supposed the North Front crowd were "riding around in Italian limousines and bathing in chianti," discovered with surprise on reaching civilization that it was themselves who physically and mentally suffered least. Dictator Mussolini, with the tendency of a onetime editor to hold reporters' lives cheap, let the boys on Italy's front get thoroughly Ethiopia-shocked...
...CHIANTI FLASK - Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes- Longmans, Green...
...Where there were only 20 or 30 big importers before, hundreds have now rushed into this highly-specialized field. Schenley has Charles Heidsieck's champagne, ports and sherries from Gonzalez Byass & Co., French wines from Barton & Guestier, Noilly Prat & Cie., French vermouth, Dubonnet and the strong red Brioli Chianti of Casa Vinicola Barone Ricasoli. Most important, it has Bacardi...