Word: cognacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Courtley Ltd.'s bubble baths had ruddy, full-blooded titles: "Chukker," "Steeple Chase," "Irish Moss." Parfums L'Orle Inc. of Manhattan had "Buckskin" and "Touchwood" perfumes ("Just for your handkerchief, of course") at $5 an ounce. Another managed to combine the smell of "the finest cognac, cedarwood, Russian leather and the great outdoors...
...American soldier has been handsomely gypped by almost every shopkeeper, bartender and shady lady in Europe, for the simple reason that he's asked for it! He'll pay a thousand francs for a bottle of third-rate cognac, if there's none to be "liberated." Then he'll get squiffed to the ears and bed himself down with a fire-sale harlot for another thousand francs, if she's pretty enough and smart enough...
...took a drink offered by one of my fellow dischargees, because I felt that soldiers who get discharged were supposed to get drunk. But the lousy cognac tasted just as lousy to me as a civilian as it did when I was a soldier. I had it all planned to say something nasty to the lieutenant who had kept us waiting around unnecessarily while he went to the PX for his rations. But I didn...
...Russian, U.S. and British Quartermaster Corps had worked hard to make the conferees comfortable. U.S. quartermasters were proudest of all of the liquor they had ready for the President to offer his guests: Scotch, gin, bourbon, wines, cognac, even curaçao and crème de menthe...
...Herr Dr. Bundin chose to die by a method in keeping with his professional interests (he was owner of a big bazooka factory). To a caviar-and-cham-pagne banquet he invited 100 of his cronies. When the last course was eaten, the fat cigars smoked and the fine cognac gone, Herr Bundin pressed a button. He had mined the banquet hall. He and his guests were atomized into dust...