Word: snifters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More to the point, he prefers filet mignon. A check-grabbing bon vivant, he turns pale at the thought of scaling down his caviar-and-cognac way of life-and managed to stay in the pink in Russia, where caviar cost $1.35 a portion, cognac up to $2.25 a snifter. He wears custom-made suits from London and monogrammed shirts from Paris (though they do nothing for his built-in rumples). Asked his favorite color, Gunther beams: "Smoked salmon-Prunier's, of course, not Reuben's." Nor would Host Gunther dream of serving domestic champagne at his massive...
...fast line of chatter with various onlookers. I nearly fainted after having stood virtually motionless for 50 minutes-during which the artist completed one painting and then, to my horror, tore it up and began another-but when it was over, Dufy rewarded me with a good snifter of brandy and a pat on the back...
...Orleans with his wife, teenage daughter and son, and sets himself up in the budding cottonseed oil business. But the other Currains lack Trav's gift for walking clean-footed through the ' mire of Reconstruction days. Wife Enid dawdles in bed till noon and takes an occasional snifter of opium to blot out the memory of magnolias. Daughter Lucy commits the heresy of falling in love with a Yankee lieutenant from Maine. (Trav actually likes the young man.) Son Peter turns Dixie chauvinist and joins one of a dozen Klannish clubs bent on terrorizing Negroes out of their...