Word: muscatel
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...bulk of California production still goes into the sweet dessert wines such as port, sherry and muscatel, especially the cheap versions known as "Sneaky Pete" consumed by impoverished alcoholics ("Let's not call them winos," says Gallo, who sells a lot of such stuff). But the premium vintners are heartened by the fact that table wine is getting an increasing share of the total market. In 1957, for example, all U.S. vintners shipped 143.3 million gallons, of which 93.6 million were dessert wines and 40.8 million table wines. Last year, as total domestic shipments climbed to 152.5 million gallons...
...Hwen. Young Molly and her husband Laurence arrived in England as Shavian cultists. Laurence, a would-be architect, wanted to build a theater shrine; Molly, a would-be actress, wanted to play Shaw heroines. Though Shaw was not immune to Molly's shapely figure and "eyes like muscatel grapes," he quickly let her know that his first love was English. He packed her off to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to drop her "very queer R's" and pick up her elocutionary ABCs. One of his early obiter dictions: "Wot, wich, were, wen. weel, etc. are absolutely...