Word: espressos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cafe proper is a small room in the basement. While it serves the usual fare (at a little less cost) of espresso, capuccino, mokka and assorted pastries, it adds a few specialties of its own like Cranberry Punch. The coffee served at the Cafe Pamplona is absolutely fresh. Miss Yanguas has installed a coffee grinder as well as an espresso machine, and fresh coffee is ground for every three or four cups ordered...
Those unwashed minstrels of the West, the beatniks of San Francisco's North Beach and Los Angeles' Venice West, make much of their loud vows of poverty. To be poor, yak the shirtless ones as they sit scratching in store-front espresso halls, is to be holy, man, holy. But last week, the mendicants of marijuana and mad verse were in the somewhat embarrassing position of monks whose liqueur sells too well. Tourists were snapping up their stuff like Chinese back-scratchers, and the beatniks were starting to rake in the dough...
...feast of the visual imagination. Herself the wife of a painter, she stipples Praise with vivid vignettes. And when it comes to dialogue, her ear is as good as her eye. Author de Lima raises a storm, all right, even if it is only a tempest in an espresso...
...managing the enterprise a condominium of the owners of local coffee shops could be installed. Napoleons from the Patisserie Gabrielle; Viennese cakes and coffee from Tulla's; espresso from the Mozart; and capuccino from Mount Aubrun 47 could serve as fare. Perhaps Jim Cronin could learn to mix Noilly Cassis for afternoon sipping and the Wursthaus could offer good Pils or bock beer...
...request was turned down. For the next eight years, according to L'Espresso, the notes flew, governments rose and fell, finance ministers came and went, until at last, in 1955, Minister of Finance Giulio Andreotti, a Christian Democratic Party stalwart, said yes. Minister Andreotti promptly defended his decision on legal grounds and pointed out that it applied only to diplomats appointed before the tax was imposed. Prince Pacelli and Count Pecci kept silent. But, crying "anticlericalists!" the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano opened a running debate with critics of the tax exemptions, declared that the implied slap...