Word: cognac
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...traitorous textbook" into which aspersions against wine have "crept " according to Deputy Barthe, is The Natural Sciences, a work containing the statement: "Cognac in one-centigram doses can kill a large...
...Bartender's Guide ("1887) carries this Philadelphia recipe for Fish House rum punch: ? pt. lemon juice; ¾ lb. white sugar dissolved in sufficient water: ½ pt. cognac; ¼ pt. peach brandy; ¼ pt. Jamaica rum; 2½ pt. cold water...
Count Maxence de Polignac, member of one of France's oldest noble families, was, last week, taking a bath in his apartment in Manhattan's Hotel Savoy-Plaza. In his rooms were several bottles of champagne, some cognac. The Count intended giving a dinner. But before he had finished his bath Federal agents entered his apartment, seized the liquor, discovered and seized also a pistol, arrested the bather...
...music. Final blow: his life-child, the opera Boris Godonnov, tragic and powerful story of a guilty Tsar, a work loved by the people, rejected by the critics, had been taken out of the repertoire of the famed Marie Theatre and never again performed during his life. Drugs and cognac were no longer an escape from reality. Death was best. Moussorgsky died but Boris lived on, to furnish one of the strangest case histories in the literature of music. Composed in 1874, it was until last year known to the world only in a prettified version as unlike that...
Sommelier: "Ah, M'sieu, the cognac Napoleon 1820 is much better than the cognac of any of the Emperor's happier years!" (Curtain...