Word: chianti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...emulate the Frascati pilgrims, other wine-growing districts of Italy planned gifts for the Vatican cellar. From the Alps 5,000 ex-service men had already brought a tun of Piedmont's ruddy Barolos. Sicilians promised 1,000 bottles of tawny Moscato. Tuscany pledged 1,000 of Chianti. Umbria planned a gift of pale Orvieto Secco, most delicate of Italian wines. On the slopes of Vesuvius, Neapolitans prepared 1,000 of Lacrima Christi, Tear of Christ, for Peter's Cellar...
...Atlantic, looped South America, threaded the West Indies, Commander Francesco De Pinedo, swart Fascist ace, last week swooped into New Orleans with his two aides in their big seaplane. He had just shaved freshly out over the Gulf of Mexico, finished off his ship's last bottle of Chianti, played his phonograph. Voluble gentlemen, one of them enormously corpulent (Mayor O'Keefe), welcomed him to the U. S. Soon he was hopping again, to Galveston, to San Antonio. His four-continent itinerary called for flight across the desert southwest to the Pacific, north to Seattle, back (following lakes) to Chicago...
...Manhattan. Basso Feodor Chaliapin came back to the Metropolitan as a guest artist in Boris, sang superbly, blew kisses to the gallery from the tips of his enormous fingers, went away to drink a glass of Chianti with friends...
Writers of human interest articles for the musical press, last week, had an assignment that warmed their cockles like Chianti. Steinway hall was being abandoned. After 59 years of brave nights, this place, where Charles Dickens, in a shaky voice, read from his notes; where Fritz Kreisler, a shaggy boy of 13, made his Manhattan debut; where sang Christine Nilsson, the Swedish Nightingale; this place of tarnished gilt and outworn elegance, smelling of twilight, was to be left to the bludgeonings of the real-estate auctioneer. The inextinguishable appeal of extinguished gallantry wrung the hearts of the human interest writers...
...what is termed a "tendency." Now tendencies have a forbidding sound about them. Somehow they seem sinister. One speaks of the husband of one's neighbor as having a tendency to drink too much. It was a tendency in the Borgia family to fortify their enemy's Chianti with toxic drops. Yet giving money to beggars is not described as a tendency. It is a form of personal advertising, and becomes a tendency only when the advertiser performs it to such an extent that his family have him removed to the hospital on the grounds that the fractional...