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...long predinner cocktail hour is vanishing; at most parties, white wine, dry sherry or a light aperitif is served???briefly ?instead of the palate-numbing Scotches and martinis of yesteryear. Preprandial hors d'oeuvres?"horrors d'oeuvres," as an English hostess once dubbed those limp, gluey concoctions?have yielded to crisp vegetable sprigs and slices. Thereafter come a few well-confected courses that cry, in Jonathan Swift's words, "Come, eat me!" And, of course, a wine or two to dignify their downing...
Nonetheless. Son Allan had his way. One day coffee & waffles were served free to 115 people. Many of them took home a can of MacDougall coffee. A few days later waffles & coffee were again served??? for a price. From then on, to the business in coffee, tea, cocoa. English, Italian and Spanish pottery and tea sets, were added waffles...
...Doumer (TIME. March 15); Loucheur (TIME, Dec. 21); Painleve (TIME, Nov. 30); Caillaux (TIME, Nov. 9); De Monzie (TIME, April 20, 1925); Clementel (TIME. April 13, 1925). The three Premiers in whose Cabinets these gentlemen served???Briand, Painleve and Herriot?have each fallen at least once on this same issue...
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