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PART VI
Concer:n;n.ing the Curriculum
T
HE
VISITOR to a New York speakeasy, according to
report, at least, may lack nothing in abundance or
supply; but, according to old-timers, he is confronted
by decided circumscription in variety.
If
one who knows
were to breathe to those speakeasy dis'pensers of dread–
ful, if not dreaded, drinks that mask under names that
were once guarantees of superior content, and harmless,
if potent, accelerators of appetite and good feeling–
taken in moderation-;--;-some
figure~
?-Swell as facts about
the quality and variety of alcoholic dispensation at the
old Waldorf in its real prime, he...would probably be
greeted by a scouting or scornful, "Aw, what are ya
givin' me?" And if you were to tell almost anybody who
hasn't the facts before him the number of kinds of fancy
drinks those veteran Waldorf barmen knew how to con–
coct, and did concoct, they would put you down as a
liar and probably say it aloud. Well, certain of those
bartenders knew how to make, and did make, two hun–
dred and seventy-one different kinds of cocktails. They
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