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Bordeaux was a British city for 300 years. Its cathedral is perpendicular English Gothic. The Plantaganet lion is still on the city shield and a certain amount of British phlegm remains in the Bordelais temperament. Its shipping is crippled. Repeal has had practically no effect in relieving its wine industry. Before the War Germany bought 16 times as much Bordeaux wine as the U. S. High tariffs have cut U. S. Repeal imports far below expectations, and the German market has completely disappeared. Yet the Bordelais are not ready to revolt. Should there be elections tomorrow their chief interest would...
Wearing a wine-colored dressing gown and seated in the wheel chair used by Murderess Alice Lindsay Wynekoop. he was jocular about his newly trimmed hair and mustache...
...first boss had been Chicago's Theodore Thomas, pioneer among U. S. orchestra-builders. After morning rehearsals, Conductor Thomas and young Frederick Stock went often to Zum Rothen Stern (now the Red Star Inn) on Chicago's North Clark Street. There, over many a bottle of wine, Conductor Thomas told his protege how he had left New York for the Midwest, how he had found new audiences fresh and stimulating. In 1905 Frederick Stock succeeded Thomas as conductor of the Chicago Symphony. But before the old man's death he had taken the orchestra...
...grandfather, also named Eugene, who, with a brother Adolph, left Bidestroff in the then Germna territory of the Saar and came to France in 1836. More particularly Brothers Eugene and Adolph came to Le Crcesot (literally "The Hollow" or "The Crucible") where to the south of the Burgundy wine district a small foundry had been making cannon from the days of Louis XVI. With perfect impartiality it had supplied first the monarchy, then the republic, and then Napoleon's Empire with its products, bought the foundry (La Societe Generale des Hauts Feurneaux) for 2,500,000 francs--and were then...
...team got gold ones and a delicately fashioned bronze representing Hector and Achilles, because they had just won the Col. Robert M. Thompson Trophy. In the summer of 1920 at Antwerp, the British Olympic fencing team and the U. S. team sat down to dinner. Over wine, one of the Britons observed that such pleasant company should get together oftener, suggested that if the Yankees would put up a cup or something the British would go over and take it away from them. Col. Robert Means Thompson, longtime executive of the American Olympic Committee and rich Annapolis graduate for whose...