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Ambergris is hard to recognize. Though it is usually ash-grey, it may be white, black, yellow or mottled like marble. It may have a fragrant odor, or an overpowering stench. Some experts claim that even chemical analysis is shaky and that ambergris, like a fine wine, may be truly identified only by its bouquet. For use in perfumes raw ambergris must be ground in a mortar, soaked for six months in 95% alcohol...
...Wine, Beer and Champagne bring up the tail end of the list but have been completely outclassed by their stronger rivals. Wine sales total a mere six, while Beer has a meagre sum of three to its credit. Scared away by the cost of Champagne, students have only made two purchases of the "Nectar of the Gods," in the two months since repeal. Port and Sherry head the list of wines and in the Champagne division "Heldsick" and "Chateau Rheims" divide the two points...
...servants were kept at the head of the stairs, talking, playing the phonograph, acting as if a party were still in progress. Downstairs used plates and half-filled glasses were scattered about as if a formal supper had just ended. Some little cakes and a few glasses of wine were packed with enough potassium cyanide to fell a span of oxen. Rasputin wolfed these whole...
...Bully Beef club had a battle-scarred can of bully beef to be opened by the last two survivors of its 286 members. Said Last Man Lockwood: "We ate many cans of bully beef during the Civil War but we chose a rare old bottle of Burgundy wine for the final toast. Anyway, wine is more in keeping with the times." Forthwith beside the battle-scarred can of bully beef was placed a brand-new bottle of Burgundy...
...curious and the acquisitive trooped to see "the first salon devoted exclusively to American handmade glass." All the glass was the product of Steuben Glass Inc., artistic subsidiary of onetime Ambassador Alanson Bigelow Houghton's big Corning Glass Works. Visitors beheld a coruscant and cleverly lit display of wine glasses, bowls, plates, bottles, candlesticks, vases; a tableful of heavy molded "architectural" glass for cornices, tiles, columns. Prize of the show was a slender glass fountain by Sydney B. Waugh, 1929 Prix de Rome winner. Other exhibits: a pair of glass slippers made to fit Gloria Swanson; a replica...