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...manage its deepwater operations in the Gulf of Mexico. He had reached an age and accumulated enough years of service to sail off into the sunset with a good pension. Both kids' college tuitions and one of their weddings were out of the way; his 46-ft. sailboat, the Sazerac, beckoned. But then Hurricane Katrina walloped his house two blocks from Lake Pontchartrain, and his plans for a clean break from his career shifted. "Suddenly, having cash outside of retirement plans began to look like a pretty good idea," says Markway, now 55. Besides, he felt a need...
Louisianians are not interested in ideologies or principles but in the fundamentals -- the whir of slot machines, the pounding of horses' hoofs, and the clink of ice in a Sazerac cocktail...
...hards held Kansas for nearly 70 years. In 1933, they rejected the federal repeal amendment (21st) with the offended aloofness of a preacher declining a Sazerac. Many a hypocrite, it was said, staggered to the polls to vote...
...road that helped develop the great Alabama steel areas (and vice versa); it was the road whose passengers used to be met by grinning waiters with free Sazerac cocktails; it was the road which John W. (Bet-you-a-Million) Gates kidnapped from J. P. Morgan's corral in a spectacular Stock Exchange raid in 1902. Gates made $10,000,000 by selling the stock to J. P. Morgan, who then resold it to Atlantic Coast Line. A.C.L. still owns 51% of L. & N. common...
...really a succession of shows. Show No. 1 is a Negro gambol called Du Barry Brown, with at least one good tune, I've Got a Job, a good specialty act by three colored bucks with canes, a hot dance finale. Show No. 2, Sazerac, covers the white man's South, offers proof that the Albertina Rasch girls may surrender but never die, and that Scarlett O'Hara & Rhett Butler (who make love to music) are going to be equally hard to kill off. Best thing in Sazerac are those well-known comic acrobats, the Oldfields...