Word: cliquot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After lunch the King wanted a smoke badly, but could not light up, according to the protocol that rules his conduct until he had been toasted. The Prime Minister tapped a bell, and, in Veuve Cliquot '28 the guests toasted first the King then the Queen, then both. Then the King lit up before a waiter could get to him with a match (the Queen does not smoke in public), and listened while Prime Minister King reminded the diners: "Today as never before, the throne has become the centre of our national life." Stammering slightly His Majesty spoke...
...program includes "Officer of the Day" by Hall, "Cliquot" by Reser, and a Football Medley arranged by Rice given by the Banjo Club. The Mandolin Club is giving Intermezzo from "Naila" by Delibes and "Espana" from Walteufel...
...different units of the organization, the Banjo, Mandolin, and Vocal Clubs, the Gold Coast Orchestra, and the Specialty Division, will each appear during the evening. The Banjo Club, under the leadership of Harold M. Parsons, Jr. '36, will include as its numbers "Officer of the Day" by Hall and "Cliquot Club" by Reser...
...France's foremost socialite, able huntswoman, sculptress, novelist, playwright; of pneumonia; at the home of her daughter Duchess de Luynes; in Dapierre, France. Relict and mother of France's senior dukes, she was spoken of in French society simply as "La Duchesse." Out of her immense Veuve Cliquot vineyard incomes she financed General Georges Boulanger's intrigue in the 1880's to return monarchy to France. After a youth as the "most beautiful, best-born and richest" woman of France when Napoleon III was Emperor, her greatest pride was in being the first woman appointed Wolf...
...Banjo Club, which has greatly increased in size this year, will start the musical entertainment rendering "American Patrol' by Meacham and "Cliquot" by Resuer. This will be followed by a guitar quarter, and by a burlesque called "The Gay Nineties." The Gold Coast Orchestra will then render two popular pieces and a Russian song arranged by Pollack. This band will also furnish the music for the dancing after wants. Ellery Sedgwick '32 will then give an exhibition of magic. All unusually large group of maudolin players will then give excerpts from Sullivan's operatic music. "The Volga Boatmen," and "Dark...