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...inner harbor entrance at the foot of Victoria Pier, a yellow-bricked sailors' memorial towers above the waterfront. Half a block away is the old Neptune Tavern (known from Singapore to the Cape of Good Hope for its "strong ale and pea soup"); nearby are other noted grog shops such as Joe Beef's and Liverpool House. Just around the corner there is a sailor's club where last season an average of 300 sailors a night were quartered...
...Ferrat on the French Riviera, found the second story pretty much a war ruin. He set himself a double deadline for April, hoped by then to have the place repaired and a book finished. A caller found him huddled by the fireplace, repairing a cold with hot grog. The book, said Maugham, would be "the last book of my life ... a romance . . ." and he meant not to dally. "I feel that when a man reaches my age [73 next month] and he wants to write a romance, he ought to be quick...
...Deadlock. But M. le President resisted smothering with characteristic stubbornness. While tactful Mme. de Gaulle served hot grog for journalists waiting outside the villa in the chill autumn weather, her husband talked on & on with party notables...
...talk and the grog could not put together a coalition government on the President's terms. M. de Gaulle was up hard against Communist insistence that theirs, as the party which polled the most votes (5,000,000), should name its own man for one of the three key posts: Foreign Affairs, War, Interior. He refused to put a Communist in any of these posts, but offered them other places in the Cabinet...
...Hickory to be the seventh President of the Yewnited States. Then they all marched to Washington. Old Hickory kicked Nicholas Biddle higher than the day before yesterday and the Yewnited States Bank higher than the day before next. Then they all went to the White House for free grog and climbed over the fancy chairs with muddy boots. Everybody got jobs with the Government because, as Old Hickory said: "To the victors belong the spoils!" And everybody agreed that it was democracy at work...