Word: cognac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days after the Fifth U. S. Marines landed at St. Nazaire. France on July 2, 1917, Buck Private Abian Anders Wallgren was arrested for trying to smuggle two bottles of cognac into camp. It was the first vagary of a mildly undisciplined disposition which ultimately got Private Wallgren seven court-martials, never for anything more serious than "butting an officer in the stomach to get into quarters...
...distillery which has capitalized on the freak market. This year the company applied for a patent on "Liquorized Ice-Cream." As rich and thick as junket but tasting more like an Alexander cocktail, the mixture consists of 5% to 25% liquor (sloe gin, dry gin, rum, whiskey, cognac or Scotch...
French truck drivers, drawing triple pay, were going out of Leftist Spain last week sporting gold wrist watches, silk socks & shirts, smoking the best cigars. At restaurants just inside the French border they could be seen swizzling champagne, ordering such delicacies as speckled trout, fresh asparagus, vieux cognac. These lusty lads have been driving an average of 200 heavy trucks per day from Republican France over the officially closed frontier into Leftist Spain. The 2,000 tons they took in daily were mostly passed as "agricultural implements" or "foodstuffs." A truck careening down the road at Montauban overturned last week...
Having made Benedictine alone for 358 years, the Frenchmen of Fécamp recently launched a new line-"B and B" (for Benedictine & Brandy). This combination is familiar to every barfly who has found Benedictine too saccharine, mixed Cognac with it for a drier beverage. In such abrupt mixing, however, brandy floats on rather than blends with Benedictine. The Manhattan liquor firm, of Julius Wile Sons & Co. spent two years persuading the Le Grand family that it could do a better job by aging the two together. Last week Julius Wile got the first shipment, bottled in the ancient bottle...
...they stumbled from their plane, having covered about 5,288 miles in 63 hr., 17 min.-second longest flight in history* and one of the most important in charting an uncharted airway. The trio dragged themselves to the home of Brigadier General George C. Marshall, field commandant, drank his cognac, gobbled his breakfast, used his razor, then fell into his beds while the world applauded...