1931 Old Waldorf Bar Days by Albert Stevens Crockett

Glossary "Financieres." The Cock's Comb and the Financiere are still reputed among the ultrasophisticated to possess vir– tues akin to those of certain simian appropriations rec– ommended by a distinguished Slavic surgeon. Indeed, the manager of one well-known mart for rare comesti– bles and delicacies stoutly maintained to the writer that the combination is in great and growing demand. To prove his assertion, he ·called for a bottle from the shelf, and asked his clerks to bear witness. Which they did. "Ginger ale" i.&perhaps better known than in pre– prohibition days, so it should be unnecessary to define it, except so far as to say that "imported" ginger ale in those days meant that the product had been manufac– tured in some other country than the United States. An "orange," of course, signified about what it does to-day, though "orange peel" then meant a good deal more, as in the compendium there will be found numerous con– coctions in which it was used for flavoring purposes. "Mint," a pungent herb commonly found in kitchen gardens, formerly filled a noble office in certain parts of this country-particularly below Mason and Dixon's line, and most notably, perhaps, m Kentucky, though in other states great pride was exhibited by many citi– zens in the virtues of a compound whose recipe, they claimed, had been handed down in some particular fam– ily for generations past. Nowadays, however, it seems to be more closely identified with the chewing gum in– dustry than anything else. To refer back to "berries," and to include with them the more inclusive ·subject of "fruit," the word "raspberry" had not become synony– mous with "horse's laugh" or anything else anatomical,

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