Word: pre-war
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...butlers sat among the servants they had hired and trained, while below them on the floor their footmen and maids danced. Some of them unbent to the point of dancing with a pretty parlor maid. Those who were British-born and trained reminisced fondly on Britain's great pre-War entertaining when 20 maids and 20 valets would accompany their masters and mistresses to a great house for the weekend, bringing outside gossip. Some of the footmen and chauffeurs were also British but the rest of the butlers' underlings were Irish. German and Scandinavian, more rawboned and clumsy...
Sloan. Also giving his first one-man show in four years was impetuous John Sloan, friend and contemporary of Bellows, Henri, Luks. At the Montross Galleries was a representative group of his work for the past 30 years, divided sharply between his atmospheric, human scenes of pre-War New York that everyone likes and a bevy of strange bright-colored nudes, hatched and crosshatched in red, green, black. With these nudes he has been stubbornly experimenting in late years. They gave conservative Critic Royal Cortissoz "a positively painful sensation," but for Critic McBride they proved that "John Sloan has kept...
When liquor was legalized, Federal Alcohol Control Administration was swamped with 1,000 requests for permission to bring in 50,000,000 gal. of foreign wines & spirits. In the peak pre-War years, 12,000,000 gal. had been the annual importation. Accordingly, FACA issued import licenses after drastically reducing all importers' quotas. This action wrought considerably more hardship on legitimate dealers who had applied only for their honest needs than it did on a number of unscrupulous speculators and ex-'leggers who applied for quotas in the names of from one to 30 dummy corporations, with...
...When Hitler captured Germany the time had similarly come to adjourn the sessions of the League of Nations and to fold away the Kellogg Pact and all similar parchment collections of words become meaningless in a contemporary world. His coming marked the transition from a post-war to a pre-war era." U. S. participation in the last war temporarily rescued the European balance of power, "therefore accomplished no more than to assist Europe in preparing the way for the next." How soon will war come? Simonds sets no date but says: "In 1934 as in 1914, European peace will...
Bacardi. Schenley also has an importing subsidiary whose list of foreign wines & liquors is the envy of every U. S. importer. Whiskey men and the importers have completely reversed their pre-War position. Today there are only a handful of major whiskey units where before the War there were hundreds. Where there were only 20 or 30 big importers before, hundreds have now rushed into this highly-specialized field. Schenley has Charles Heidsieck's champagne, ports and sherries from Gonzalez Byass & Co., French wines from Barton & Guestier, Noilly Prat & Cie., French vermouth, Dubonnet and the strong red Brioli Chianti...