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About once every season it is well for a student vagabond to wonder a little further a field in search of interesting activities. In 40 B. C. Horace the Latin poet said "Be gay Focus eat of stuffed lampreys drink of the sharp Aventine wine so long as ye are not dyspeptic...
...fashioned whiskey glass contained 2 oz., 8 to the pint. Good foreign brandy contains 50% absolute alcohol, good wine 10%, good beer 5%. To become dead drunk, according to these scientific calculations, would require 1% quarts of brandy, 7% quarts of wine, 1¼ cases of beer...
...part. It may not be ungenerous, however, to remark that his summary (pp. 96-97) of American literature before Longfellow seems unhappy in its choice of critical epithets, and shaky in its chronology. One may be excused for disagreeing with the biographer's view that Longfellow's appreciation of wine is an "exotic note" and an escape "from the starker Puritanism of his training," when it is remembered that belief in the legitimate use of wine--and of New England rum--seems pretty well marked in successive generations of New England Puritans. It is difficult to accept the idea that...
...dress. The newly married pair and a few special guests were then invited to a family luncheon with His Holiness, at which the Pontiff sat at a separate table elevated above the rest of the party. The menu included galatine of pheasant, cakes with the papal colors, and Capri wine, both red and white, marsala, champagne and liqueurs...
...primrose path to higher education an not only opportunities to examine bizarre architectures and to pass off foreign language requirements; they are to be compared with the nocturnal diversions of big game weekends when everything but a desire to submerge dry and musty knowledge in the enjoyments of wine, women and song or at least song--is cast to the winds. And when those winds are of the seven seas the celebrations may last longer than a weekend and may be slightly more bacchie...