Word: cognac
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...their soth wedding anniversary, celebrated on the French Riviera, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill received the attentions of an esteeming world: telegrams and letters (from the Queen, the Prime Minister, the President of the U.S.), hampers of flowers, a gallon of 119-year-old cognac, a 25-lb. chocolate cigar. The day was quiet, with a few champagne toasts on the villa terrace; but, as the New York Times editorialized, it was "still another great day in a life that has known much greatness...
...green vegetables, potatoes or rice. Sweet pie or homemade pudding, such as apple betty, bread pudding, rice pudding, custard; cookies or homemade cakes or gingerbread, canned fruit; canned babas au rhum, etc. Salad with French dressing in warm weather. Cheese-black diamond, Canadian cheddar, with pie or, usually, with cognac after dinner...
...Cognac and cheese, out of doors if weather permits...
...found a job in a Barcelona bar--an American bar. All foreign liquor was illegal 'cause they want to peddle the local cognac, but the cops had a system where they'd come around once at Easter to collect a fine, and then you're holding aces for the rest of the year. They had real organization there; lots of it." He lit another cigarette and continued...
...females," counting his secretary, relatives, and a cinnamon poodle named Josephine, has fixed expenses of $21,000 a year "before buying a single hamburger." More to the point, he prefers filet mignon. A check-grabbing bon vivant, he turns pale at the thought of scaling down his caviar-and-cognac way of life-and managed to stay in the pink in Russia, where caviar cost $1.35 a portion, cognac up to $2.25 a snifter. He wears custom-made suits from London and monogrammed shirts from Paris (though they do nothing for his built-in rumples). Asked his favorite color, Gunther...