Word: ritifs
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...ritif. In Buffalo, N.Y., members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union gathered for a state convention, found that the mayor had just announced the celebration of National Wine Week...
...most discussed exhibition in Italy last week was of 94 landscapes and cityscapes signed "Francesco Torri." It was not the quality of the paintings that made talk, though they were pretty good. Unpretentious sketches of pleasant spots for a picnic or an apéritif, the canvases were simple in composition and glowing in color. They were the work of a man, one critic had averred, "who knows his trade...
Soon everybody was drinking the "intimatist cocktail"-a gin base with an equal dash of curaçao and of an apéritif. Then Sébille rose and spoke. He spoke of his philosophy and the manner in which life should be lived and rosebuds gathered. The intimatists wrapped themselves in bed sheets to resemble Roman togas. From then until well past dawn, intimatism became general...
...Paris, comfortably settled in a small apartment, where her nephew, Raymond Clerisse, a young French lawyer, sometimes dropped in for an apéritif. One day Marga had an especially pleasant visit from Raymond. As he was going, she pressed a small piece of candy into his mouth. "Merci," said Raymond and departed. Later he was seized with fearful cramps. He had just enough strength to scribble on the back of a métro ticket: "The candy Marga gave me tasted strange." A few days later he was dead. Police called on Marga, but soon dropped the case...
...ritif. In Detroit, Fred Maechtle decided to end it all, turned on the gas, waited patiently for several hours, finally got hungry, lit a match to find some food, blew up the house, escaped with burns...