Word: clarets
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...mezzanine were such exhibits as knickerslacks and directors' suits. In the Grand Ballroom were lively discussions of the color of waistcoats, the cut of coat tails. Haughtily ignoring the ready-to-wear industry which actually controls mass styles, the tailors recommended tuxedo vests of maroon and purple, claret and gold; opera capes of blue vicuna lined with scarlet and purple. The Fashion Committee was in favor of streamlining men's clothes: ". . . a stripe, for example, perpendicular through coat and trousers, but for the waistcoat navigating the torso horizontally. Pockets may trim their flaps back to lay neatly against...
...taxes squeezing everybody, coming and going, Castor and I feel that the liquor trade is a fine how-do-ye-do. Imported Chateau Pontet-Canet, a Medoc of the fifth and lowest ranking, is selling in Boston with much blowing of trumpets for three fifty a bottle; California claret, resembling dago red to an astonishing degree, is served ice cold for the bargain price of one fifty a bottle. Three star Hennessey, which is, after all, nothing extraordinary, is the equivalent of so much gold dust in price. The solutions for all this have been stated in myriads, but, quite...
...present-day prices, although not as cheap as that, are still reasonable. The cocktails cost as follows: Martini .25, Manhattan .30, Bronx .25, Clover Club .35, Old Fashioned .35, Orange Blossom .30, Champagne .75; the prices of the punches and miscellaneous mixed drink.; Planters Punch .45, Claret Punch .35, Brandy Egg Nogg .50, Tom Collins .35, Gin Rickey .25, Ward "8" .45. The fizzes and sours range from .30 to .45, and the highballs from...
People were driving down Broadway in claret-colored broughams, ladies wore tiaras and insisted on heavy white gloves when in Box No. 8, the fourth from the stage on the right, Lizzie P. Bliss began entertaining on Monday nights at the Opera. Lizzie Bliss was a gracious hostess. In Washington she entertained for her father when President McKinley persuaded him to leave his wholesale dry-goods business long enough to serve a term as Secretary of the Interior. Cornelius Newton Bliss Jr. was part owner of the Diamond Horseshoe Box but New York has known him more for his charitable...
...from Don Quixote. Forced into narrow, high panels, the kicking, squealing characters of Artist Sert literally stand on each other's heads to fill the space. Celebrants at the wedding feast include leaping acrobats, hoary strong men, bull tamers, jugglers, drunkards, surrounded by great billows of silver and claret-colored drapery. Other than those which Artist Sert has painted into his compositions, there will be no hangings in the Waldorf's Sert Room. Paris critics credited the paintings with "the potency of a Michelangelo . . . daring of a Goya . . . more than one reminiscence of the great Venetian colorists like...