Word: vermouth
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...wine-what to ask the dealer, what prices are right. Anxious hostesses may consult a table showing what wine to serve with what dish. (Beer-swillers, whiskey-totters will find nothing for them in The Complete Wine Book; but Authors Schoonmaker & Marvel append a final chapter on brandies, liqueurs, vermouth...
...where before the War there were hundreds. Where there were only 20 or 30 big importers before, hundreds have now rushed into this highly-specialized field. Schenley has Charles Heidsieck's champagne, ports and sherries from Gonzalez Byass & Co., French wines from Barton & Guestier, Noilly Prat & Cie., French vermouth, Dubonnet and the strong red Brioli Chianti of Casa Vinicola Barone Ricasoli. Most important, it has Bacardi...
...Dorf & Co. has Messrs. Nuyens & Co.'s French vermouth and grenadine, Schweppes' table waters, Holloway's London Dry and Sloe gins, Powers' Three Swallow Irish whiskey...
...ordered a seven-course lunch. Premier Azana called a second cabinet meeting while the General had his siesta. When he awoke he learned that the second meeting had ended without a decision because Radical Socialist members had threatened to resign if the sentence were commuted. General Sanjurjo ordered a vermouth as the cabinet went into a third session. Three hours before sundown Premier Azana announced to the Cortes that the cabinet had asked President Niceto Alcala Zamora to commute the sentence to life imprisonment, that the President had signed the papers. Rightist deputies cheered, those of the Left hissed. There...
...stomach, has issued stringent regulations providing that, without special permission, only two kinds of mixed drinks may be sold, the Martini Cocktail and the Manhattan Cocktail. In Italy (though not in Finland) it is against, the law to sell as a "Martini Cocktail" any beverage not containing vermouth made by the Italian firm of Martini & Rossi...