Word: liqueurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure that his fellow dons got their money's worth-and no more-he invented a series of gauges by which to measure their drinks. All a man had to do was to hold a Dodgson gauge up to his glass and say "When" as the wine or liqueur reached a certain mark. Since liqueur prices varied, there were gauges for everything from green chartreuse to dry curaçao, with a special scale and price list for each...
...recorded spiels were the idea of Marcel LeGrand, director-general of the Societé Bénédictine of Fécamp, manufacturers of Benedictine liqueur. He installed a similar system in his distillery last year for the benefit of tourists, later tried it in the company's Fécamp museum. Some of the Galerie Royale's guides were pretty sad about the future-if this was it. Said one oldtimer: "At first, it was awful listening to an invisible man do my job. But you can't stand in the way of progress...
...went off and the waiters trooped in with silver urns full of Cream of Chicken Soup. There were also croutons which the Press Table's waiter managed to spread neatly all over the newsmen. Then came steaks with mushroom sauce, and lastly, "Ice Cream Ring Aux Fraises" complete with liqueur sauce. "You could get drunk on this," warned the reporter sitting next...
Last Sunday, as he climbed to his new diving platform, he felt "as calm as when I sip a glass of liqueur after dinner." He plummeted down & down in a perfect swan dive. As he came up, blinking, the crowd cheered happily for their "cure sportif...
Young Man. The Carthusian Order now has about 750 members in its 26 houses in Europe. Their best known product is the heady liqueur, Chartreuse, which they have made since the 17th Century from a secret formula. But the real Carthusian preoccupation is prayer. Pope Pius XI said of the Carthusians that their special duty is, like Moses in the fight between the Israelites and the Amalekites, to be on the mountain praying while the battle is being fought out below...