Word: jeanings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among Frenchmen the familiar U. S. paradox of a rich man "dry as a matter of business" but socially wringing wet is significantly turned inside out by Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy. "As a matter of business" M. Hennessy spends millions to extol the virtues of "***Hennessy," probably the best of large production brandies. Mixed with equal parts of Italian Vermuth, famed "***Hennessy" becomes the surprising and delicious "Ponce de Leon Cocktail," a beverage of smoky, tingling undertaste-and bland, stimulating potency. It is said that M. Hennessy conceived the "Ponce de Leon" as a shrewd means of booming "***" above English...
...Peuple, exposed the diabolic "Great Catherine." She had incautiously attacked in La, Gazette certain political schemes of Scent Tycoon Coty, and he fought back by putting smart reporters on her shady fiscal trail, exposed her. Amid the grand sensation of last week another purveyor of expensive liquids, Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy, was dragged into the mess. He has only recently been named Minister of Agriculture, and jealous enemies were quick to charge that because a newspaper in which he is largely interested, Le Quotidien, had made a joint circulation drive with La Gazette du Franc, he must have been...
Remarried. Louis Untermeyer, Manhattan poet; to Jean Starr Untermeyer, Manhattan poetess. In 1926 Poet Untermeyer divorced Poetess Starr to marry Poetess Virginia Moore. Said Poet Untermeyer: "I remarried my first wife because I usually love...
Seaton Pippin, a seven-year-old bay mare owned by Paul Moore, won every event in which she entered, taking nine prizes altogether. Jean Regan rode The Flirt over ten jumps without touching the top-bar on any one. Seventy thousand people, more than had ever done so before, attended the horse show; one of them was Senor Aime F. Tschiffely, who three years and four months ago set out from the Argentine to ride to the U. S.; Peter Manning, the greatest trotting horse in the world, slapped around the ring pulling a featherweight two-wheel sulky...
Agriculture-Jean Hennessy...