Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...m sure you'll agree there's no need...
HENRY R. SLACK, M. D. LaGrange...
...been appealed to but you may force me to it! I'm sorry, but it must be my Harvard English...
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...
Soon official statements were made by the respective foreign offices in such terms that undoubtedly one or the other set of diplomats was lying. The Bolivians said that their troops were sound asleep at six a. m. in Fort Vanguardia on unquestionably Bolivian territory when they were stealthily attacked by Paraguayan soldiers. The diplomats of Paraguay said that their troops had discovered a Bolivian fort on unquestionably Paraguayan territory, had requested the Bolivian garrison to withdraw and had been fired upon for their pains. At approximately the same hour last week both governments claimed that their victorious forces held...