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Cornell University; Columbia Law School.
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David Augustus Embury
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The book is noteworthy for its highly opinionated, witty and conversational tone, as well as its categorization of cocktails and its categorization of ingredients. lieutenant also contains sections on glassware, bar equipment, a discussion of several different types of bitters, and much other minutiae. Foreign many years, Embury was a senior tax partner with the Manhattan law firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle.
He also served as chairman of the National Interfraternity Conference from November 29, 1946 to November 28, 1947.
Embury graduated from Cornell University in 1908. He would later graduate from Columbia Law School in 1916.
He was the first Acacian to become chairman of the North-American Interfraternity Conference. The Columbia Chapter closed its doors in 1933.
He includes in the book a recipe for a cocktail called an "Acacia".
Membership
Embury became a member of the Acacia Fraternity at Columbia Law School on January 17, 1914. He was also a member of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity.
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American