Without straining for big-picture significance, it provides a composed look into the revolutionary spirit.
"Cock tail, then, is a stimulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters — it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion," went this inaugural mention.
The museum is worth the trip as a homage to the American creation of "stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water and bitters," as it was defined in an 1806 newspaper article on display.
The Old-Fashioned is about as close as you can get to one of the earliest-known definitions of the cocktail itself: "a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters," according to a New York state newspaper in 1806.
In it, the editor stated, "Cocktail is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water and bitters it is vulgarly called bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent engineering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head.
But now he was thankful that he had time to compose his spirit, and to spend a last year in affectionate and actually merry association with those dear to him" (4).
The original 1929 edition, which varies significantly from the revised version of 1957 was completed, fast, in less than four months, inspired by Graves's lover and muse, the American poet Laura Riding, and composed in a spirit of burning-his-boats excitement: Graves wanted to raise enough money to retire to Majorca.
On the already Grammy-nominated 1619 Broadway The Brill Building Project (Concord Jazz), Elling frees his inclinations to the kinds of classic Tin Pan Alley numbers spawned either in the edifice he honors in his title or numbers that have been composed in the spirit of the revered Manhattan spot.
Nathan Englander's short story, "The Twenty-Seventh Man," from his debut collection, "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges," is so impeccably pulled off, so beautifully composed in the spirit of the great Yiddish writers it depicts that the notion of adapting it to the stage seemed a foolhardy gamble.
Each of the 24 regions was administered by 24 officials, who had under their command 240 armies of spirits, composed of 2400 generals, 2400 officers and 240000 soldiers.
Brecht himself composed music in this spirit.
