Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bonbon for fatigued capitalists (the Sleeping Beauty Waltz) to the rounded maturity of the Fourth Symphony-all played magnificently. When the concert was over, 100 guests remained, having been notified of a "Concert by a Visiting Orchestra -Sokolai Nikoloffsky, conductor." The program: I. Echoes from Home, song of Vulgar Vodka; II. Well-Tampered Prelude to Act III, Lohengrin; III. World Debut in America of Josepha Fuchsia, violiniste, in an Old Time Concerto by Vieuxtemps; IV. War Dance, Skilton-Coolefske. At the conclusion of the second number, Conductor Sokolai Nikoloffsky flourished his dirty pink coat sleeves, grimaced, leaped in air. From...
...Where is a taste for vodka reported to be developing...
...Temperance" Fisher, "only female wholesale liquor dealer in England," purveyoress of kümmel to the House of Lords, electrified Tory topers last week by announcing that she now receives periodic shipments of Soviet vodka...
Quoth the doughty "Temperance" to news gatherers: "I think there must be a large number of Russians in London because I sell so much vodka here. Englishmen are beginning to acquire a taste for it, too. Just at first it sometimes puts them under the table...
...reply to its contemporary. It uncarthed a dinner given two weeks ago by the Soviet delegation in London: and labelled it a feast of Lucullus. With watering mouth and rising temperature, the author of the reply listed the vintages arrayed before the Russians: Sauterne, claret, champagne port, brandy, and vodka. It drew the moral that a society tea is but a quick lunch beside a good, luscious, Bolsheviki spread...