Word: angostura
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...Trinidad's Angostura Bitters, brewed originally at the Orinoco River town of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar) by an ex-Prussian army surgeon named J.G.B. Siegert, and now shipped around the world from Port of Spain in millions of bottles containing a sauce whose secret, boasts the company, is "as hard to fathom as Mona Lisa's smile...
...count on traveling businessmen and conventions as well as tourists to keep its 261 rooms filled (rates: $20 to $37). Trinidad might be considered the Salzburg of the Caribbean-being the birthplace of calypso and the ubiquitous steel band. Its other claim to fame: the factory from which Angostura bitters sprays upon the civilized world...
...second largest barrelage of crude oil in the Commonwealth (after Canada), earns a national income of $438 million, compared with the $570 million earned in Jamaica, which has twice the population. Along with exports of asphalt, rum, and ladies' underwear, the small island supplies every drop of Angostura bitters for the world's old-fashioned and rum swizzles...
...figure. Ma starts fattening up Cedric with goodies from the "frige." Pop rechristens the tax man "Charlie," and plies him with a Rolls-Royce ("half vermouth, quarter whisky, quarter gin, dash of orange bitters") followed by a Chauffeur ("one-third vermouth, one-third whisky, one-third gin, dash of Angostura"). At first day's end. a cocktail-shaken Charlie, decked in Mariette's pajamas, goes to sleep on the billiard table while cooing sweet nothings to the billiard ball in the corner pocket...
Died. Ralph Morgan (real name: Ralph Wuppermann), 72, veteran (since 1908) character actor of stage (Strange Interlude) and screen (Magnificent Obsession), elder brother of the late Comedian Frank Morgan, son of George Wuppermann, founder and first president of the Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. (bitters) ; after long illness, in Manhattan...