Word: cognacs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French brandy distillers of whom the greatest is Cognac's dignified, art collecting Senator James ("***") Hennessy have hoped that on the repeal of the 18th Amendment they can drop their distasteful dealings with U. S. bootleggers. Last week their trade paper, Le Capital, urged them not to break off profitable clandestine relations in a hurry, warned that "an American tax of $6.40 per gallon on alcohol is provided and must become effective automatically when Prohibition is abolished. Furthermore, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act provides an additional tax of $5 per gallon on imported liquors. "There still are some days...
Flush with champagne & cognac, as he always is at the close of a dinner, President Kemal began to stare at the Egyptian Minister's red fez. Upon Kemal the effect was that of a red rag on a bull. He ripped out something in Turkish and the Egyptian Minister, flushing as red as his fez, took it off, later sent details of the affront to fat King Fuad...
...against my idea of committing the crime. I prayed, even on the train. When I reached Paris I went to pray at Notre Dame. I begged God to rid me of this obsession. My struggle with myself lasted for two whole days. Then I drank an entire bottle of cognac. I was too intoxicated to remember what...
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...