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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...
Cakes glide on to the table with dessert. On the dark mahogany there is candy. Cigarette sales mount. Cocktails tinkle in the glistening shaker. Movies, dances, theatres, good food, bad food, candles, papers, photographs, fine cars, feathers, spats, pearls, music, cameras, Easter...
...evening began at 7 o'clock promptly, when approximately 300 persons, including present residents, tutors, and associates took their places at tables throughout the Dining Hall. Three-quarters of an hour later, when the dessert and coffee were about to be brought in, House Committee chairman P. M. Whitman '32 arose to give a short welcome to the President in behalf of the House...
Each day the bakery turns out 125 dozen muffins, 200 dozen cookies, 200 pounds of cake, 40 to 50 large pans of pudding, 250 leaves of French bread, 175 dozen rolls, and when a popular dessert such as apple pie is to be baked, it takes 250 pies to feed the College. All fillings for pies, and sauces for puddings are made in the bakery, although in the case of sauces and whipped cream, the ingredients are sent along separately to the individual kitchens, where they are mixed...
...Roman Catholic Church has taken bigger men than Mussolini and eaten them for dessert...