Word: corking
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...born in County Cork to Senor Visian de Valera, a Spaniard, and the onetime Kate Coll of Limerick...
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...took back to France with me last year a bottle of what purported to be our own brand of champagne, and which, so far as the container, cork and seal were concerned, I could not myself tell from our own product. This I exhibited before the Congress of the French Syndicate of Champagne Makers, and they were roused to the highest pitch of indignation. I think they will try to do something in the near future to protect their rights...
...quoted as believing Yurovski suddenly resolved to assassinate the Imperial family when he discovered that Nicholas was communicating with loyal friends by means of such notes concealed in the hollow cork of a milk bottle. According to her account, a pet dog belonging to the young Tsarevitch commenced to howl inconsolably as soon as his master had been shot dead. This so worked upon the nerves of the murderer, Yurovski, that he seized the dog and dashed its brains out against a red-hot stove...
...Perignon, procurator of the Abbey of Haut Villers, who discovered the great secret of regulating the effervescence of champagne, late in the 17th century. Not only did he thus produce a perfect sparkling wine that gushed from the bottle and overflowed the glass, but he invented a system of cork's in place of the bit of oil-soaked rag that had hitherto been used; and, to humor his fancy, he adopted a tall thin tapering glass for the service of his wine in order that he might watch the play of the bubbles...