Word: pernods
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...French used to say, pocketing the 5-centime change on their glass of Pernod. But this ancient expression of French thrift became meaningless when, with the fall of the franc that began with World War I, the sou gradually descended to its present poker-chip worthlessness of one-hundredth of an American cent...
...looked more closely, peering through the thick and irregular sides of what he now realized to be a Pernod bottle. "But it's only a black sock...
Winer Take All. In Rouen, France, Factory Worker Andre Poultier bet his friends that he could down 30 glasses of Pernod in ten minutes, did so, barely had time to collect his money before he died...
...held me. I dressed myself and the attendants came after me with the chair, but I insisted on walking. There were moments when my legs felt like jelly; I felt I'd never make it. but I did. And I stopped in the nearest café for a Pernod. I was ravenous...
...Paris, he "rebelled against the order of my life," drank Pernod at the Deux Magots, attended the Sorbonne "desultorily," and began a novel about a young man who sets out to murder his father. Much rewritten since then with his father's encouragement, the novel is still unpublished. But since he returned to the U.S. and finally embraced his father's career as writer and teacher. Charles has broken into print as assistant editor of Fadiman's anthology The American Treasury, and this April Harper's will publish his Lincoln's Commando, a biography...