Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Le Fevre Sutro...
...quiet town of Fécamp, France, some 25 miles northeast of Le Havre, the Benedictine monks for centuries had a monastery. In 1510 one of the monks, Dom Bernardo Vincelli, discovered that a magnificent cordial could be made by mixing certain herbs with honey, sugar and alcohol. Named "Elixir," the beverage lured King Francis I to Fécamp in 1534 to drink it, was a European favorite by the time of the French Revolution. Then the Benedictine monastery at Fécamp was destroyed, the monks dispersed, the secret of Elixir apparently lost forever. In 1863, however, Monsieur...
...Brandy). This combination is familiar to every barfly who has found Benedictine too saccharine, mixed Cognac with it for a drier beverage. In such abrupt mixing, however, brandy floats on rather than blends with Benedictine. The Manhattan liquor firm, of Julius Wile Sons & Co. spent two years persuading the Le Grand family that it could do a better job by aging the two together. Last week Julius Wile got the first shipment, bottled in the ancient bottle devised by the monks and bearing the traditional Benedictine symbol-D.O.M. (for Deo Optimo Maximo, "To God most good most great...
Cosmopolite Dolmetsch, son of a piano maker, was born at Le Mans, France, of Bohemian, German, Swiss and French ancestry, started out to be a violinist, studied with famed Violinist Vieuxtemps at the Brussels Conservatoire. But in 1889, while poking about the musical archives of London's British Museum, he happened to come across manuscripts of a 17th-Century English music for viols. Violinist Dolmetsch had heard 17th-Century scores revived by modern musicians on modern instruments, and, like many, had found the results flat as saltless soup. But as he studied the old scores, he began...
Edward Larabee Barnes, Peter Thatcher Brooks, William Jackson Clothier, Carlos Colton Daughaday, Robert Olney Easton, Herbert Bruce Griswold, Charles George Hutter, Jr., Francis Keppel, Paul Massik, John Nesmith, Robert Craig Stuart, Alvah Woodbury Sulloway, Louis Le Fevre Sutro, Richard Otis Ulin, and Caspar Willard Weinberger...