Word: valpolicella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aging colonel and his young mistress' are meticulously cared for by assorted Venetian factotums, all of whom are really friends. When the colonel slips an extra bill to a young second waiter, the tip is reproachfully returned-an event about as plausible as the Grand Canal turning to Valpolicella. John O'Hara, a Hemingway disciple but less sentimental, is not so much concerned with friendship between servant and master as with correctness; his elderly club members know that it is as gauche to overtip as to undertip, and they seem to get away with shiny half-dollars that...
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