Word: cognac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reds to expedite the reforms that Rome badly needs-housing people who live in caves, purging municipal corruption, modernizing public services. "What has the Atlantic pact or what happens in Czechoslovakia to do with how Rome's local administration is run?" he asks, as he pours an interviewer cognac and coffee. Communists are old hands in dealing with men like Selvaggi...
...left her pregnant); a nymphomaniac stage star married him and later took an overdose of morphine after he divorced her. Glandular charm plus superficial talent took him to the top of the theatrical heap. But inside, he was a psychic bankrupt who needed several stiff slugs of cognac to get past the first act. When he dies on the last page, it seems only reasonable to conclude that his bartender will miss him most...
...months in a Rhodesian internment camp he was assigned to decorate the camp church's interior. He did the job in tempera, and claims that he completed a normal two years' work in four months, egged on by two Franciscan friars who kept him well fueled with cognac and whisky. (Pagliacci, a two-fisted drinker, says he does his best painting when slightly tiddly...
...Piaf, but her show is much the same. First comes a chatty little resume of the story of her song in French, followed by a charmingly painful version in English. Then, with a piano tinkling away discreetly on either side, she flashes a white smile and launches her husky cognac contralto into the songs her admirers have come to expect: Amour, April in Portugal, Mile. Hortensia...
Then Professor Walter Hallstein, West Germany's delegate, made a fervent plea for French-German friendship. His words were the kindest heard between Germans and Frenchmen in years. Monnet had difficulty blinking away his tears. For the former brandy salesman from Cognac (and onetime investment banker in Manhattan), it was a great moment. Monnet had worked out the plan that Schuman had presented to the world...