Word: malmsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best shot: Richard and Mord drowning the Duke of Clarence, Richard's brother, in a vast butt of malmsey-bibulous Clarence's favorite tipple-with beautifully bubblous sound effects...
Fixed in many a schoolboy's memory is the fact that 15th Century George Duke of Clarence died in a butt of malmsey (aromatic grape) wine. Sleepy-eyed Abdul Hamil II, Sultan of Turkey, died in Magnesia, not a solution but a town in Asia Minor. At the time of his death (1918), though a prisoner of the "Young Turkish" government he was worth $1,500,000,000, was generally considered Richest Man in the World. Last week the Greek government agreed to pay $50,000,000 to nine of his widows, 13 of his children. Not only...