Word: liqueured
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...meeting's lavish host was the British Labor Party, which set up an un-austere dinner of hors d'oeuvres, soup, chicken, potatoes, peas, cabbage and a choice of three sweets to be washed down with sound, unimaginative red Saint-Julien, a white Bordeaux and liqueur. (Because Oulton Hall is not a licensed house, the drinks had to be brought all the way from London...
...Sketch of My Life): "I have a feeling that I shall die at the same age as my mother [70], in 1945." At his Pacific Palisades home near Los Angeles, Author Mann looked fit despite a slight head cold, smoked his usual two cigars a day (with a liqueur on the side), smoked cigarets the rest of the time, walked his daily two miles "against the sea breeze," and was 500 pages along on a new novel which he figured would run to 700. Said he: "In my youth I was convinced I would die when I was 40. Then...
...superb soprano raised again in the music of Porgy and Bess; and The Man I Love given an added pinch of pepper by Hazel Scott's post-graduate left hand are only a few of the courses served up in this lavish Gershwin feast. For dessert and liqueur there is a spine-tingling performance of the Rhapsody in Blue, arranged, conducted and played by three members of the original priesthood-Ferde Grofé, Paul Whiteman and Levant...
...wrote in 1928 to a Jewish friend of mine about the purchase of some Pommery Champagne. On the letterhead von Ribbentrop's telegraphic address is given as "Weinribbentrop, Berlin" and the chief brands he represented were Pommery & Greno Champagne, Meukow Cognac, Johnnie Walker Whiskey and Grande Chartreuse Liqueur; note also that he refers to the firm of "Schoeneberg & Ribbentrop." Von Ribbentrop, the future Nazi, winds up his letter by asking to be remembered to the wife of his Jewish client and with "best regards...
...square-rigged, ruddy-cheeked, sea-trading folk of one of the quaintest old towns in Europe last week dropped their placid and peculiar tasks-such as adding tiny flakes of pure gold leaf to the sparkling, sweet liqueur they sell as Danziger Goldwasser-to come tumbling down the high stoops of their peak-gabled houses for a bucolic joy spree over Adolf Hitler...