Word: martinis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climactic moments, it pours out superb tenor singing in a flood interrupted only at intervals, and not seriously, by patches of story; scatters brief festoons, long streamers and big solid chunks of song as prodigally as if it were the purpose of Producer Jesse Lasky and Singer Nino Martini to exhaust the world's supply of tenor music. True, Martini, after a few scales, goes into a popular piece Here's To Romance by Conn Conrad, but then he warms to this work. He sings Le Reve from Manon Lescaut, parts of Cavalier ia Rusticana, and Leoncavallo...
...beginning of this picture, Nick Charles (William Powell) says to one of his favorite bartenders: "A dry martini should be shaken to waltz time." This conceit is the most disputable bit of deductive reasoning which Nick Charles executes in the course of The Thin Man. A retired detective, in Manhattan for a holiday with his charming wife (Myrna Loy), he finds himself drawn by circumstance into trying to solve the sudden disappearance of an eccentric inventor, whose mistress has been found murdered. When the inventor's watch-chain is discovered in the dead woman's hand, when...
...Figures indicate prices of three drinks, Martini, Old-Fashioned, and Highball, respectively...
...Figures indicate prices of three drinks, Martini, Old-Fashioned, and Highball, respectively...
...Soriano motors. Spain and England sent two men each, Hungary and Sweden one. Italy, where motorboat racing is encouraged by the Government, did not send a team for the outboard competition but sent its three best drivers to compete in the 12-litre races: Count Theo Rossi de Montelera (Martini & Rossi), Prince Carlo Maurizio Ruspoli, Antonio Becchi...