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Punchino

Alcoholic beverage made of a mixture of coffee and brandy, set on fire, popular in the 1940s (source?)

Village Voice, November 20, 1957

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Hart Crane: A Life Clive Fisher (p 245)

The evenings would often progress to a speakeasy which the group knew as Punchino's Palace,a grim six x eight hold in Susan' word where or 15 or 20 cwnts we drank leathal speakeasy rum in hot water.

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The Long Road Home (p 414) Marilyn L. Hill To accompany it was Cafe' PUnchion, a coffee made directly at the table and set aflame with brandy. Each of them twisted lemon peel though the fire as was the custom. It made a perfect ending to a special meal.

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The Young and the Evil Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler Julian said a hot punchino would be good. Karel said it would be so they went to Frankie's. They ordered punchinos from the partly crosseyed waiter with a German accent. There was a group of men and round blonde girl at the next table.

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Festschrift for B. F. Skinner - (p 7) Peter b. Dews (1970) ...for the summer, and on to Harvard in the fall to begin the study of psychology. In New York I worked in a book shop, dined at Chumleys', and drank hot rum Punchino's at Jimmy's, a speakeasy on Barrow Street. My friends were liberal and...