Word: cognac
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...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...
...down. It might be for the last time. But in the Cercle Sportif, the club by the river bank, the French continue to act as they have always done. The Chinese servant is still fairly polite, calls people Honorable or Venerable One as he shuffles around with bottles of cognac and Perrier water...
...Wine and cognac ads appear infrequently, vodka ads almost never, but the Liquor Trust recently ran an ad saying: "Bring your empty, cognac and wine bottles to the Moscow Liquor Factory...
Shelley has been deported so often for misbehavior that she is now down to her last island. Blackmailer Cognac (Luther Adler) hires her to sing in his cafe, and to sweet-talk Macdonald Carey out of some information on a wartime Jap rubber-smuggling deal...