Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disputes about interpretation are put to a majority vote. On their long Pullman hops they are incessant poker and bridge players, winning and losing substantial sums among themselves. Their drinking habits, not nearly as blended as their tone, are: Roismann, tomato juice; Alexander Schneider, Burgundy; Kroyt, vodka; Mischa Schneider, milk...
...Embassy in Moscow Ambassador William Standley gave a rousing Fourth of July party. The guests, Americans and Russians, enjoyed: hot dogs with buns and mustard; punch with vodka; a Russian orchestra presenting a concert of American music, including Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and a Shostakovich arrangement of When Johnny Comes Marching Home...
...Hotel Continental in Cambridge. This promises to be a terrific affair. Partly the reason is that all the boys will be out to forget exams and grades. More important is the fact that the Faculty will be in attendance; it is expected that the Mickey Finns will flow like Vodka...
...circled the world in 28 days (on its side the plane had "Mission to Moscow" painted in bright yellow letters in English and Russian). Nine of those days he spent in Moscow; five of the nine in bed with his pills because of his ailing stomach. (He drank no vodka at state dinners.) He had two interviews with Joseph Stalin, for a total of seven and a half hours, looked up many an old friend from his Ambassadorial days...
...Washington, not only over the good fellowship of Joe Davies and Joe Stalin but over something bigger it reflected: the growing good fellowship of Russia, Britain and the U.S. Success on the battlefronts and the Comintern's dissolution (TIME, May 31), heady as a couple of beakers of vodka, had put all in jovial humor. The statesmen saw what a long way the three Allies had come within a year. The crusty old reserve was melting. A new understanding seemed dawning. Pushkin & Byron. The keynoter was Russia. Gone was yesteryear's cry for a second front, yesterday...