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Word: cognacs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portions of meat-filled dumplings, two bowls of rice, two helpings of hog's pudding, three helpings of boiled beef and chili, one chicken, three helpings of veal with salad, 1 Ib. of cheese, half a pie, a bowl of fruit, a gallon of wine, three glasses of cognac, four cups of coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 1, 1957 | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...live and congregate buzzed disturbing news: the first major defection from the ranks of the abstract expressionists had taken place. Longtime Abstractionist John Ferren, 51, had hung a show of his new paintings in which nearly every canvas was centered around an all-too-recognizable bottle, beaker, carafe or cognac glass. What had the artists buzzing was why Ferren had hit on the bottle, and what had hit him hard enough to make him turn his back on the abstractionists' decade of painting for paint's sake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Bottle & I | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...Sacred Wood Just who was the father of Maurice Utrillo? The list of possibilities suggested at one time or another as the sire of the late, famed, alcoholic painter of Montmartre scenes sounds like a roll call of 19th century greats. Renoir used to pose Utrillo's mother, cognac-haired Marie Clémentine Valadon, nude in the back of his garden. Toulouse-Lautrec was' her bosom companion and persuaded her to adopt the more stylish name of Suzanne. Degas took her under his wing, assured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Within the Sacred Wood | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...Cognac Farewell. Such luxurious attentions pay the Palace well. The hotel (which stays open for the summer and winter seasons, closing April-June and mid-September to mid-December) grosses about $2,100,000 annually, plus $275,000 from three swank restaurants around town (Chesa Viglia, Golf, Piz Nair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: The Golden Rain | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

Last week, as the New Year's guests began departing for trains to London, Paris, Rome and Vienna, Host Andrea Badrutt said goodbye in six languages, gave each a small bottle of cognac to ease the parting journey. As snow fell onto the white peaks, his mother looked fondly at the flake-filled sky, cried: "Ah, golden rain, golden rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: The Golden Rain | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

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