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...click . . . click-click. . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click. Welker Cochran, 30, Hollywood (Calif.) realtor, had won the international 18.2 balkline billiard tournament at Washington, D. C., turning back among others Willie Hoppe, defending champion, and M. Felix Grange, of France, who had missed his vin ordinaire (TIME, March...
...said the King. "Vin ordinaire like the rest of you. Sit down everybody...
...population of France is stationary, and thus consumes no more of the staple "vin ordinaire" in one year than another. When production of French "red ink" is unusually large, the surplus must be exported or make trouble for the local wine makers. Formerly the solution used to consist in exporting largely to the U. S., although our imports of French beverages were in large measure fine wines rather than the lowly and humble "vin ordinaire." But Prohibition has now sealed this outlet, unhappily for the French...
...winegrowers of France had a fine grape crop, and produced more "vin ordinaire" than was needed. Prices sagged and unhappiness resulted. But nature is apparently inexorable, and has this year again smiled on the French grape grower. The result is bound to be another fine grape crop, more unneeded "vin ordinaire," still lower prices, and considerable bewilderment and worry in the French wine industry. U. S. tourists in France may help somewhat, yet this factor is unimportant. The 11% or less "vin ordinaire" is now a drug on the market; it now sells for 50 francs ($2.50) a hectolitre (about...
Thus fades the student magnificent; but only to change his abode. Stepping with seven league boots, the roistering scholar has set up a tidy little bohemian inferno of his own in the sacred precincts of Back Bay. The Quartier Latin in the flood days of vin rouge never dreamed of such boisterous revelry, nor of such cheerful flouting of conventionality as nightly reigns upon the banks of the Charles; if one may believe what he reads. But Fate is cruel, and already the prying eye of the reformer is looking askance at these nocturnal festivities. The end cannot...