Word: lacrimae
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past. Comfort will be derived, too, from the sparkle and rest radiating from every word of a man who had reached the age of 74 on a constant diet of fine liquor and rich food, and who, in retrospect, regretted nothing save the bad wines he had drunk. "Sparkling Lacrima Cristi. . . suggested ginger beer alternately stirred up with a stick of chocolate and a large sulphur match." George Saintsbury's "Notes on a Cellar Book" suggests fine old port, beautiful and savory in its cut-glass goblet, warming and exhilarating in its proper home...
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