Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Champagne, these superb red and white Bordeaux, the wines of connoisseurs, sell commonly for a trifle less than a good bot tle of "bubbly." Of course Bordeaux of the very oldest and greatest years, such as Châateau Yquem 1874 or Châateau Haut-Brion 1875, are well nigh unobtainable at any price. Preferred brands of Champagne are Clicquot Veuve, R. Bollinger and G. H. Mumm. Generally speaking the correspondence of wines to food is : red meat - red wine ; white meat - white wine. Markedly sweet wines, however, are not to be served with meat at all. Thus Sherry...
Skeptical observers pointed out the well-established Conservative custom of having a Bolshevik scandal shortly before a general election...
...Honorable gentlemen opposite have been pretty cunning, very crafty in some of their methods of dealing with situations. . . . They have talked about a red-blooded attitude on the part of Canada They have chosen their ground well, because, if there is one thing above another that the honorable gentlemen are good at, it is jingoist pronouncements, more particularly when they relate to the United States. But may I say to my honorable friends opposite it is not a red-blooded attitude that is needed at the present moment so much as a cool-headed attitude, and a cool-headed attitude...
...ears of little Tsar Boris were soon well enough to permit his visiting Berlin, where he paid a formal call on President von Hindenburg, and the old warrior, convalescent himself from a light attack of influenza, received Tsar Boris in his bedroom...
...Trustees, onetime principal. Spence is deserting its old buildings to move into nine Georgian floors farther uptown-still just off Fifth Avenue. Money must be raised. Barnard's Dean Gildersleeve was called in to make (gratis) a stirring campaign speech and alumnae last week received a rousing, well-printed money-appeal. Needed is $1,000,000 and: "Naturally . . . there must be a few gifts of $25,000, $50,000, and $100,000 and many of $5,000 and upwards. . . . To enable the school's friends to make such gifts a program has been worked out so that subscriptions...