Word: vert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bistros from Montmartre to Montparnasse. This harrowing revelation that British children yet unborn would pay for their father's absinthe drinking could never have passed His Majesty's censor had not the Times been privileged to announce simultaneously that the French Government was banning and prohibiting le diable vert (the green devil). Last week, after 19 years, all Europe was startled by persistent re ports of fresh absinthe deviltry in Paris...
...famous French recipe for absinthe requires two kinds of wormwood, "grande absinthe" and "petite absinthe." Proportions: grande absinthe 250 grams; petite absinthe 50 gm.; hysope 100 gm.; citronelle 100 gm.; anis vert 500 gm.; badian 100 gm.; fenouil 200 gm.; and coriandre 100 gm. Directions: Soak the above in 5 litres of pure alcohol (85° C.) for 24 hours. Add 2^ litres of water. Distill this mixture. Take off 21/20 litres of pure distillate. Add to this 2½| litres of pure alcohol (85° C.) and 2¾ litres of distilled water to obtain, in all, about 10 litres of absinthe. Color...
...secretive about details of its share ? rates of interest, maturity dates, etc., etc. ? except to say that it would not be passed on to the public. The French were frank er. The French credit will run for a year and the Paris bankers are anxious to con vert it on maturity into a 20-year long term loan. At least $100,000,000 of their share will be sold to the public immediately...