Word: cognac
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...thousands of students, minus a lucky few who stayed on to study or work, came swarming back to the Land of the Loud Tie and the Hot Dog. They all had stacks of snapshots of themselves with monuments in the background, suitcases full of bottles of cheap French cognac, and perhaps a "not-to-be-introduced-into-the-United States' edition or two of Henry Miller. And once back at college, they all settled down to pceve their friends no end by comparing everything at home to "the way it's done...
Caviar at Home. Without socks, wearing prison pants, and carrying a suitcase that contained only a worn bathing suit (not his), Anders was whirled away from Lubianka in a limousine and ensconced in a luxurious four-room apartment. There he was given two servants and quantities of champagne, cognac and caviar...
...Richard Burbidge, then managing director, startled the retail world by installing escalators on Harrods' ground floor. At the top of the 40-ft. moving stairway, he stationed an attendant to hand out free doses of smelling salts or cognac to all who had braved the trip. When he built his new store, between Basil Street and Braupton Road, a domed and gingerbready six-story edifice with 13½ acres of floor space, Burbidge shrewdly allowed for expansion by letting out the top floors as flats. Of the ten flats that are left, the largest belongs to his grandson...
...days later the sergeant's general sent him across a bullet-swept street in Torreón for a canteen of cognac. Adelita...
Since then the Pathé producer-exhibitor network has gone successively through bankruptcy, reorganization, Nazi occupation, and the purge of collaborators. The Bank of France's Ferdinand Liffran is titular boss, has the help of a potent cross-section of French big business (steel, oils, insurance, cognac and utilities are represented on Pathé's present board). By diligent squeezing Pathé last year made a profit of $151,200 from films and its 35 European theaters...