Word: bordeaux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makes the sticky, sweetish brown liqueur called Benedictine, crisply told correspondents last week that U. S. citizens residing in France now handle bootleg shipments from that end. "Frankly these American bootleggers are the best of customers," said M. Le Grand. "We deliver our goods f. o. b. Havre or Bordeaux and are paid on the spot. For Benedictine we are paid $1 a bottle, and we do not complain, I assure you Messieurs. We are told that these same goods are sold in America for $10 a bottle,* but we have no hand in the American rum-running industry...
...some proof impressions. Many of these prints have their titles written on them by Goya himself. Included in the exhibit is a complete succession of these prints showing the development in skill and feeling, ending with some made when he was 80 years of age, the famous "Bulls of Bordeaux...
Nobody knew for certain. The Dictator had traveled from Warsaw to Bordeaux, where he embarked for Madeira, in a sumptuous private car of the Polish State Railways. Knowing that Marshal Pilsudski might decide to go tearing home at any moment, his Chief of Staff ordered the car held at Bordeaux, had its doors and windows hermetically closed by ornate Polish seals...
Presently from Madeira the station master at Bordeaux received an urgent request. He must find Marshal Pilsudski's state sword. It was thought to be in the car. The station master was formally authorized in the name of Marshal Pilsudski to break the seals, rummage the car, pack up the sword if found, and despatch it by the next boat to Madeira...
...Doubtless from Bordeaux in his private...