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Toasting in champagne one night at the embassy, he hoisted his glass to a senator's wife and gaily cried: `` Up your bottom ''!!
I had champagne at Maxim's, then went into a cafe called the Jour et Nuit to ask the way to Montmartre.
Cider is the most popular beverage of the middle and lower economic classes at Christmas and New Year ( the upper classes proverbially preferring to celebrate with locally produced champagne, although real old-line " creole " aristocrats will still drink cider, which is much more traditional ).
), sometimes performing a symbolic act such as cutting a ribbon or pushing a button at an opening, christening something with champagne, laying the first stone, and so on.
On one occasion, she begged Malibu neighbour Larry Hagman to check Moon into yet another clinic to dry out, ( as he had tried more than once before ) but when doctors recorded Moon's intake at breakfast ( a full bottle of champagne along with Courvoisier along with amphetamines ), they allegedly concluded there was no hope in his rehabilitation.
Altenberg, like many writers and artists, was constantly short of money, but he was adept at making friends, cultivating patrons, and convincing others to pay for his meals, his champagne, even his rent, with which he was frequently late.
During the K-19's official launch, the bottle of champagne fails to break when it strikes the bow ; the sailors nervously glance at each other due to this customary sign of bad luck.
" Emine Saner of The Guardian suggests that with a gin and Dubonnet at noon, red wine with lunch, a port and martini at 6 pm and two glasses of champagne at dinner, " a conservative estimate puts the number of alcohol units she drank at 70 a week ".
Fagon quickly attributed the King's continuing ailments to champagne and ordered that only Burgundy wine must be served at the royal table.
The term " Champagne Music " was derived from an engagement at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, when a dancer referred to his band's sound as " light and bubbly as champagne.
This is reflected in his last major work, at the age of 80, the design, building and decoration of the Foujita chapel in the gardens of the Mumm champagne house in Reims, France, which he completed in 1966, not long before his death.
Gerald, Tess ' inconsiderate secretary ( Dan Tobin ), arrives with a bottle of champagne and reminds Tess of her commitment to launch a ship at 8: 30 am.
In " Where the Buggalo Roam " during his stay at the ranch of Amy Wong's parents, he bathes in their champagne, breaks their television, fertilizes the caviar before Amy's father eats it, draws mustaches on several portraits around the house, tear up their couch, fill their pool with brine shrimp and refers to the ranch as " Rancho Zoidberg ," enraging the Wongs.
The bills on September 19 included two bottles of Cristal champagne charged at £ 400.
They became known for hosting small dinner parties from their giant bed in their palatial townhouse on Quai d ' Orsay, and afterward everyone was invited to enjoy their huge bathtub together, taking advantage of iced bottles of champagne near at hand.
During the autumn of 1992 Lamont became a press target in a string of largely fabricated stories: that he had not paid his hotel bill for " champagne and large breakfasts " from the Conservative Party Conference ( in fact his bill had been forwarded on for settlement ); that he was in arrears on his personal Visa credit card bill ( true ); that in June 1991 he had used taxpayers ' money to handle the fall-out from press stories concerning sex therapist Lindi St Clair ( Miss Whiplash ), who was using a flat he owned ( the Treasury contributed £ 4, 700 of the £ 23, 000 bill which had been formally approved by the Head of the Civil Service and the Prime Minister ; there was never any suggestion that he had ever met her ); and that he had called at a newsagent in a seedy area of Paddington late at night to purchase champagne and cheap " Raffles " cigarettes.

champagne and traditional
Rather than a traditional champagne bottle, red, white, and blue water was sprayed on the aircraft.
Moved by her performance, Sibelius invited them to his home and asked his wife to bring champagne in place of the traditional coffee.
VFQPRD: is a regional sparkling wine made in the traditional champagne, charmat or transfer method in one of the following determined regions: Douro, Ribatejo, Minho, Alentejo or Estremadura.
VQPRD: is a sparkling wine that can made by injecting the wine with gas in the traditional champagne, charmat, transfer method anywhere in Portugal.
Although alcoholic beverages are legal in Bahrain, the drivers do not spray the traditional champagne on the podium.
Braun's movies differ markedly from the traditional so-called stag films made from 1916 onwards ; storylines featuring Viking invasions, James Bond spoofs, and exotic locales such as Caribbean islands, the Dutch castle of Groeneveld and an Amsterdam art gallery, not to mention props such as chocolate cake, champagne and bananas contribute to a more playful and relaxed atmosphere than commonly seen in this inherently limited genre.
The recipe was based on a traditional German custom of mixing all the dregs of unfinished wine bottles with champagne.
This makes use of traditional cork corks, metal wine bottle caps and champagne corks.

champagne and country
It was originally available in miniature champagne bottles and was one of the premier high-end beers in the country for many years.
The President then delivered his welcome speech and offered a champagne toast to the head of state of Ambassador's home country.
Dignitaries from the country hosting the race then present trophies to the drivers and a constructor's trophy to a representative from the winner's team, and the winning drivers spray each other and the fans with champagne.
Welk frequently had performers sing and play standards from the big band era and the first half of the 20th century ( Welk had a particular admiration for contemporaries Hoagy Carmichael, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer and similar composers ), although the show's repertoire was in reality much broader and would often include pop songs from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s as well as country music, patriotic music, and religious music, especially if it was thought to appeal to older listeners ( and, as Welk stated in 1956, " as long as it's done in the champagne style ").

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:* Orlando has a boutique Bastille Day street festival that began in 2009 in the Audubon Park Garden District and involves champagne, wine, music, petanque, artists, and street performers.
The cup has a capacity of 3. 75 litres – sufficient for five bottles of champagne.
The village of Champagne, Switzerland, has traditionally made a still wine labelled as " champagne ", the earliest records of viticulture dated to 1657.
Except for a brief period in the 1990s, High Life bottles have always been quite distinctive, as they have a bright gold label and are made of a clear glass that has a tapered neck like a champagne bottle.
His offerings include champagne, gunfire, toy ships, savoury exotic foods, naval rum, and rams whose wool has been dyed with indigo.
Buggenhout has two breweries, Bosteels Brewery ( known for the " Tripel Karmeliet ", " Deus " ( a champagne beer ), " Kwak ") and De Landtsheer ( known for " Malheur ").
On the way back Dumbo cries and then starts to hiccup so Timothy decides to take him for a drink of water from a bucket which, unknown to him, has accidentally had a bottle of champagne knocked into it.
Recent excavation of garbage dumps adjacent to the brothels has revealed opium bottles, prescription tranquilizers similar to Lorazepam, champagne bottles, and pickle jars.
Brodovitch ’ s signature use of white space, his innovation of Bazaar ’ s iconic Didot logo, and the cinematic quality that his obsessive cropping brought to layouts ( not even the work of Man Ray and Henri Cartier-Bresson was safe from his busy scissors ) compelled Truman Capote to write, " What Dom Pérignon was to champagne ... so has been to ... photographic design and editorial layout.
The new Beaufort Bar has an Art Deco interior of jet-black and gold, serves champagne and cocktails and offers nightly cabaret.
The Savoy has a Sunday brunch, including free-flow champagne, and special events, such as New Year's Eve dinner.
The narrator drinks most of a bottle of champagne that has been spiked with mescalin.
has accused Stonewall of endorsing discrimination by holding champagne receptions for celebrities and politicians supported by HSBC, despite the company being sued by Peter Lewis in 2005 for unfair dismissal on grounds of sexual orientation.
After they wash their eyelids and summon him back to the room once more, Ted arrives at a scene of mass chaos: the walls of the bedroom have been scribbled with lipstick, Juancho has a cigarette in his mouth, Sarah has the bottle of champagne in her hand, the television is set to an adult channel, and the children have found the corpse of a dead prostitute ( Patricia Vonne ) stuffed under the mattress.
These diamonds are usually difficult to sell, although Rio Tinto has seen some success in a decade-long marketing campaign to promote brown diamonds as champagne and cognac toned.
He has been referred to as a " champagne socialist " though he has said that 95 per cent of his work comes from legal aid.
Founded in 1886 at the Place de la Madeleine by a pushcart grocer named Auguste Félix Fauchon, the company has built its reputation on signature products like its champagne mustard, marrons glacés and strawberry and rose water preserves.
A horse that appears to be a liver chestnut but has a light colored mane and tail, sometimes colloquially called a " chocolate palomino ," could be a horse manifesting the champagne gene.
Williams has been a spokesperson for Georges Veselle champagne.

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