Word: dubonnet
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...Parisian, Banyuls is the name of a heavy dessert wine, artificially colored scarlet and spiked with quinine, which rivals Byrrh and Dubonnet as an apéritif. It is pressed among the bare hills of a French Catalan fishing village 30 mi. from the Spanish border. In Banyuls 71 years ago Aristide Maillol was born, there he still spends his winters. His grandfather was a huge peasant of tremendous physical strength who was actively engaged in Banyuls' third most important industry, smuggling. Smuggler Maillol was successful enough to indulge his grandson's taste for art, though young Aristide...
...they notice that it is on a river, that nearly every street is flanked by rows of shade trees, that the sidewalks teem with cafes, that French officials wear evening dress at day-time functions, and that many a signboard bids one to start the next meal with a Dubonnet...
...Hards. To encourage popular flying, the Aero Club of France canvassed its first 100 pilots, found 75 of them living, many engaged in active flying. Among them: Santos Dumont, the Farman brothers, Breguet, Bellenger, Dubonnet, Louis Bleriot, holder of pilots license...
Born. To Mme Paul Dubonnet (Jean Nash) and Paul Dubonnet (aperitif) distiller's scion, divorced husband of Christiane Coty, daughter of Publisher & Perfumer Francois Coty; a daughter (their first, her third child); in Cannes, France. She married successively John Stanley Kirwan of Manhattan, Capt. Winfield Sifton (by whom her eldest, now 18) son of the late Sir Clifford Sifton. British Army Capt. John Victor Nash, Egyptian Prince Mohammed Sabit...