Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town of Erath, 125 miles west of New Orleans, groups of white folks gathered to pass along the latest rumors about the new pastor. Father Labbe was holding catechism classes without the usual row of empty chairs between 650 white and 75 Negro children. He was going to mix the kids all up, people whispered, by putting them in alphabetical order and having them confirmed by the bishop in that order. Father Labbe, it seemed, was out to integrate the church...
With sales of U.S.-produced vermouth running at some 4,000,000 gals, annually, about 10% better than last year, Americans are learning to mix vermouth with many things. Thousands of U.S. housewives use it in place of wine in the kitchen, whip up Asparagus Vermouth. Veal in Vermouth, Chicken in Vermouth. But the U.S. pours 95% of its vermouth into cocktails, most of it into the ever-dryer martini. And the wonder to Vermouthman Tribuno is that so much gets in. There once was a time when martinis had as much vermouth as gin. But now the rage...
...base. A jolt of 180-186-proof brandy (90-93% alcohol), fortifies the wine. The vermouth ages for months before it is blended with other vermouth and filtered. As for Vermouthman Tribuno, his formula is a conservative martini, four parts gin to one part vermouth. Says he: "I could mix it dryer, but with this ratio, I figure I'll live longer...
...corner of Mount Auburn and Holyoke Streets, two people try to make the small shop as much like an informal home kitchen as possible. Whether their customer has a hunger pang or a hangover, Elsie and Henry Baumann stand ready to create a mammoth sandwich or to mix a Bromo-Seltzer...
...H.A.A.'s ticket system this fall did not confine its mix-ups to Thursdays, Friday, and Saturdays, however. Besides scrambling at the end of the week to get their tickets, undergraduates frequently had to scour the College on Monday merely to get the envelopes with which to apply for tickets. A similar problem became even more infuriating a week before the Yale game, when House superintendents ran out of Yale discount slips on Monday and gave out Dartmouth ones in stead. A few days later the H.A.A. announced that it could not accept the Dartmouth slips, so some 130 upperclassmen...