Word: cognac
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Vodka, 30? per bottle; Cognac, 60? to $1.95; whiskey, 75?; Malaga, 60?; port (imported), $1.95; champagne. $1.80; light wines...
...figured, could be a cashier, a half-brother who could be waiter, a soldier-friend who played the piano. He assembled a few tables and chairs in a room near the Madeleine. With his last few francs he sent out to an epicene for a bottle of cognac and a bottle of whiskey. A third bottle he filled with colored water, then set the lot on a display shelf and declared himself open for business...
...cubic yards of dirt and poured 12,000 cubic metres of concrete at Cheliabinsk since last July) waiting angrily for steel to erect the world's largest tractor factory. . . . Three hundred and eighty U. S. machinists making tractors in Stalingrad at a wage of $10 daily with cognac, wine and beer abundant...
James Hennessy, Three-Star cognac tycoon, won the Longchamps (France) "Royal Oak Stakes" and $12,000 with his horse Taicoun...
...cognac is a spirit, not a wine, and as Barthe pointed out, the internationally great French scientist Pasteur (inventor of milk pasteurization) said definitively: "Wine is the most healthy and hygienic ot beverages...