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Boiling a lobster is not a difficult kitchen feat, but it is usually mastered more easily if a bottle of smelling salts and/or a double dollop of gin are placed close at hand. According to ancient ritual, the beast must be plunged alive into a potful of boiling water; it invariably spends the better part of two minutes frantically trying to climb back out, and the cook needs a firm hand to keep the lid pressed down until it succumbs...
...cigars, and when he is out to dinner and cigars are passed, politely takes one, pockets it, and cunningly extracts one of his own.) The man who upheld Prohibition as his stern executive duty now drinks two Martinis before dinner. He relaxes in the evening by preoccupiedly playing gin rummy or canasta with some of his group of loyal friends...
Texas Week. Paris, their favorite city, seemed like home. Whether strolling the Champs-Elysées, primping at Elizabeth Arden's, or downing Martinis ("Très sec, avec le Gordon's gin") at Harry's New York Bar, they would always find some familiar face. They took their cigars and baby Brownies into Sacré-Coeur, climbed to the top of Notre Dame, brushed shoulders with Bohemia in cellar nightclubs on the Left Bank, gave free advice to street artists painting in Montmartre. They drove down the Loire valley searching out new restaurants...
...African Queen. A prissy spinster (Katharine Hepburn) and a gin-swilling skipper (Humphrey Bogart) triumph over jungle heat, hardship and the hangman's noose in John Huston's Technicolor version of C. S. Forester's adventure yarn (TIME...
...African Queen. A prissy spinster (Katharine Hepburn) and a gin-swilling skipper (Humphrey Bogart) triumph over jungle heat, hardship and the hangman's noose in John Huston's Technicolored version of C. S. Forester's adventure yarn (TIME...