Word: cognac
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Chapotin hopes that tourists who drop in for hush puppies and Cokes will come back for frogs' legs and the cognac that Founder André Millon laid down three-quarters of a century before the democratic revolution...
EARTH! flashes a neon sign on a certain street corner at Place Pigalle. On the sidewalk, streetwalkers nudge potential customers, and if business is slow or feet begin to hurt, they drop into a tiny cremerie for a cognac or an ice cream or a payoff to a pimp. Behind the bar is Odette...
...century in his big house, Ainola, in the woods 25 miles north of Helsinki. He stays in bed late to read the papers, which arrive as gifts from all over the world. On the rare occasions when he receives visitors in the afternoon, he joins them at coffee cakes, cognac and a cigar. During the day he reads heavily (mostly history), listens to concerts on his powerful radio, and works. Nobody knows just what his music is like these years, but fans like to play guessing games about whether he has finished an eighth and possibly started a ninth symphony...
Through Saigon's streets rolled a float depicting a swinish Emperor Bao Dai swilling cognac with one hand, clutching a nude blonde with the other, while an overbearing French rascal stuffed the royal pockets with gold. The question before the people in South Viet Nam's first free national election was in effect a choice between Premier Ngo Dinh Diem as their head of state or Bao Dai, their absentee playboy sovereign...
American blended rye whisky has a bouquet that matches the best cognac France can produce. The dogs of Yakima, Wash. are friendlier than dogs in most U.S. communities. The Burma-Shave company needs a greater variety of jingles for its roadside signs. The best apple pie in the U.S. is served at the Cottage Inn in Cripple Creek, Colo. The whistles of railroad trains speeding across the American prairies are in the key of C, and are the first, third and fifth notes of a chord. These and other minutiae are among the many observations and conclusions...