Word: clarets
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...chance at mead; plain, it tastes like a Rhine wine but has more sting. Special varieties are sack mead, which tastes like Tokay; cyser, in which cider instead of water is mixed with honey to make a wine that tastes like sherry; and pyment, or clarre, which is like claret...
...three other Stonyhurst boys, barely in their teens, feudally consumed "two turkeys, one very large goose, two chickens, one large ham . . . two large sausages, seven boxes of sardines, one of lobster, a plate full of tarts . . . seven pots of jam . . . five bottles of sherry, five of port, one of claret and two of raspberry . . . We had also two bottles of pickles." Hellfire was the only thing that was ever known to scare little Arthur-and Mother Doyle soon fixed that by offering her son the hearty advice: "Wear flannel next your skin, my dear boy, and never believe in eternal...
Table: Rhine, Sauternes,Chablis, Claret, Burgundy
...pope, born in South Africa and educated in Dublin (Trinity College), views the world editorially with a gently Tory tolerance. A bulky, dignified man Casey likes claret, canes, conversation and clubs (his favorite: the stage-minded Garrick). He had planned to retire this year to return to playwriting, his real love. How long did he think he could last in the strenuous editor's job? Says Casey, who is 63: "Three to five years, I should think...
...long, upholstered office in City Hall sat the man who had his finger on this pulsebeat. Daily, at all hours, across the claret-colored rug streamed aides, colleagues, politicians, businessmen, repairmen, newsmen. The young man, who saw everyone, was the city's mayor: deLesseps ("Chep") Story Morrison, 35, handsome, bouncing, talkative, tough and stubborn...