Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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England, my mother, Lift to my Western Sweetheart One full cup of English mead, breathing...
...sang British Poet Alfred Noyes in America, My Sweetheart. Last week Britain was lifting a cup of mead to its American sweetheart, but the cup breathed less of May than of dollars. For the first time in 400 years, the English had turned to the manufacture of mead, a wine (fermented from honey) which was the drink of kings and commoners in England from Beowulf to Henry VIII.* At the village...
Gulval, near Penzance, the Worshipful Company of Mead Makers paraded to the Gulval parish church, where a cup of mead was solemnly blessed. The mead had previously received the blessing of the British Board of Trade, which in its own quaint way hopes that mead exports will help earn a few of the dollars Britain needs (see INTERNATIONAL...
...price for grouse; there was no extra charge for the fact that the birds had been bagged by George VI and his hunting party in Scotland (TIME, Aug. 22). The thing for U.S. gourmets to do, of course, would be to wash the illustrious birds down with a full cup of English mead; pyment, said gastronomes, would go best with grouse...
...Davis Cup Finals (Fri. 2 p.m., NBC-TV). U.S. v. Australia...