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...independent California concern went a step farther toward simplified wine making. They put on the market a patented grape concentrate in solid form about the size of a pound of print butter. Known as Vino Sano, selling at $2 each, these nonalcoholic wine bricks were flavored sherry, champagne, port, claret, muscatel, et al. Instructions came in the form of warnings against dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, adding sugar, shaking daily and decanting after three weeks. Unless the buyer eschewed these processes, 13%, wine would be produced. Vino Sano's "Don'ts" were designed to prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Wine Bricks | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...important, because the butler may usually be recognized by his expression of concentrated intelligence, and is nearly always sober." Mr. Brisbane then drew a line under this sally and began anew: "Herbert [Bayard] Swope had this 'host-coat' idea long ago, wearing an evening suit of beautiful claret-colored damask. Why, no one knew. In his house there can't be any mistake about the host. And the butler had nothing to do with it, for Swope's servants are black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 16, 1931 | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...problem is solved at last. Yours again . . . always legal . . . (by the distinct provisions of Section 29 of the Prohibition Act*). . . . Absolute satisfaction or your money back. . . . Eight varieties: PORT, MUSCATEL. TOKAY. VIRGINIA DARE, CLARET. SAUTERNE, BURGUNDY, RIESLING. Five gallon keg: $14.75-Ten gallon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Simply Remove the Bung | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

Fresh from the presses was a handsome, claret-colored volume called Wine Making For The Amateur by Professor Rose. It is privately issued by the Bacchus Club*Its format was designed by Carl Purington Rollins, head of the Yale University Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wet Yale | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...forced down by rain at Queensport Harbor, N. S.; there waited for clear weather to fly to New York. Back at List, envious left-behind students crowded the inns, "Hoched"' their lucky colleagues and their respected chief time and time again in "Sylter waves," a local concoction of rum, claret & pepper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Carnival | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

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