Word: cognac
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...Cognac Farewell. Such luxurious attentions pay the Palace well. The hotel (which stays open for the summer and winter seasons, closing April-June and mid-September to mid-December) grosses about $2,100,000 annually, plus $275,000 from three swank restaurants around town (Chesa Viglia, Golf, Piz Nair...
Last week, as the New Year's guests began departing for trains to London, Paris, Rome and Vienna, Host Andrea Badrutt said goodbye in six languages, gave each a small bottle of cognac to ease the parting journey. As snow fell onto the white peaks, his mother looked fondly at the flake-filled sky, cried: "Ah, golden rain, golden rain...
...being a metis-the offspring of a foreigner and a Vietnamese. France generously granted citizenship to any Vietnamese with even a drop of French blood. Slant-eyed Eurasians, born of French soldiers or colons, learned in school that "our ancestors were the Gallic people." Eurasian men learned to drink cognac and vin rouge, the oftimes beautiful Eurasian women to wear Chanel perfume and Paris gowns. Vietnamese of mixed blood got the best jobs, were always considered a few steps above their fellow countrymen...
...least, the blunt statement effectively ruled out all further cooperation between blacks and whites on the problems of constitutional reform. And for the moment at least, 81-year-old Grogs Grogan was satisfied, as he enjoyed the daily plaudits of his admirers and the company of a bottle of cognac in the bar of the Nairobi hotel which he owns...
...size and furnishings were set aside for each chief of state, put under guard and furnished with on-the-house bottles of each President's favorite drink (Spanish "Fundador" brandy for Cuba's Fulgencio Batista, Scotch for Chile's Carlos Ibáñez, French cognac for Mexico's Adolfo Ruiz Cortines...