Word: vermouth
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...barkeeps, went from speakeasy to speakeasy writing down professional opinions. Last week these labors bore fruit when the Supreme Court of Appeals of Turin decreed that in future no Italian barman could sell or manufacture a drink known as a Martini cocktail unless it was confected from Martini & Rossi vermouth...
...court bluntly named as villains the vermouth manufacturing firms of Cinzano, Cora, Gancia, forbade them to manufacture any bottled cocktails labeled MARTINI COCKTAIL or AMERICAN MARTINI COCKTAIL, made them pay the expenses of the trial and appeal, and ordered them to publish advertisements in ten papers to be chosen by triumphant Martini & Rossi, admitting their guilt...
Cordial shops sell nonalcoholic vermouth and cordials. They also sell the "imported" kind. Or they will sell you nonalcoholic vermouth and a pint of alcohol and tell you how to mix them. Some of them take orders for "Canadian" beer, to be delivered by the case. Whiskeys are frankly of local manufacture. Said a cordial shop clerk last week: "You can't get any better whiskey than this [King George] whiskey. The man that made this whiskey has been making whiskey ever since Prohibition...
...have learned that it is futile to protest against the Hemingway comparison; most every young author who pokes his head above the ground nowadays is beset by Hemingwayniac; armed with bayonets, banderillas and empty Vermouth bottles...
Musicians great & small, obscure impresarios, shabby maestros, raffish editors, theatrical agents, garrulous critics: these compose a group which congregates in the Caffè Biffi in the great Galleria (Arcade) Vittorio Emanuele near Milan's La Scala Opera. Drinking vermouth con seltz by the hour, the clique finds much to gossip about. In July 1930, its conversation might have run like this: "So! So! A woman in La Scala. . . . Our Colombo, per l'amor di dio, our dove! What will become of the opera, with her in charge? That professoressa? Shocking...