Word: cognac
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...cognac et I'amour. In Mme. Chideu's till, the purple-and-green invasion currency brought in by the Allies mingles with old Bank of France notes. At first most shopkeepers worried because the printing on the new currency said only that the money was issued in France, named no guarantor. Now Mme. Chideu and her customers accept the Allied notes without question. Only the higher-ups still fret...
...dumped all their new notes right away. But the principal holders of the new notes are soldiers, who are too busy fighting to spend money. Towns are usually off limits, so G.I.s and Tommies remain in the countryside, where their bright bank notes raise hell only with prices for cognac and amour. Furthermore, the invading armies bring along almost everything they need and buy only a small amount of local goods...
...today my friends captured a Todt organization headquarters and found cognac and wine. So for lunch there were shell eggs (opposite: dried) and cognac with a stew compounded of vegetables and D rations, alt this sitting in an apple orchard in full bloom. It would be lovely if you could ignore the shelling, the dirt, the burning fatigue...
Before the week was out, Stokowski and Ponce had a love feast. The composer broke out a bottle of 100-year-old cognac...
...group of nocturnes and "slumber songs") to her pet dogs and cat. She took lessons in composition from Benjamin Godard. Always a facile melodist, Chaminade soon rolled up a list of over 550 compositions, which stand in the same relation to Frederic Chopin as strawberry soda does to cognac. Many of them (The Flatterer, Pas des Amphores, La Zingara, Valse Caprice, Air de Ballet, etc.) got an international reputation...