Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...COMPLETE WINE BOOK-Frank Schoonmaker & Tom & Marvel-Simon & Schuster...
Authors Schoonmaker & Marvel put in a chapter of good words for U. S. wine, say the U. S. has a needless inferiority complex about its domestic wine, but will have to clean house in the matter of dishonest labeling. They give a chapter apiece to the wines of France, Germany. Italy, Spain and Portugal; tell how to buy wine-what to ask the dealer, what prices are right. Anxious hostesses may consult a table showing what wine to serve with what dish. (Beer-swillers, whiskey-totters will find nothing for them in The Complete Wine Book; but Authors Schoonmaker & Marvel...
...Authors present respectable credentials. Frank Schoonmaker has roamed the vineyards of Europe many years, "collecting information and pleasant experiences," for the past year has been wine correspondent for the New Yorker. Tom Marvel, Connecticut vineyard-owner, is now on the Paris staff of the New York Herald, has served on French wine juries, written home about wine...
...Takes a Wife (by Frank B. Elser & Marc Connelly; Max Gordon, producer). In 1825 cannons boomed from Albany to Buffalo as Governor De Witt Clinton, on a red and yellow barge, opened the Erie Canal. For 50 years it was the main commercial artery between East and West, the marvel of its time until the railroads came. With much nostalgic tenderness has Walter D. Edmonds (Rome Haul) written of the canal as it approached its decadence. Two able adapters, Marc Connelly (The Green Pastures) and Frank B. Elser (Mr. Gilhooley), have preserved for the stage every jot of humor, deviltry...
...indications prove correct, they will marvel more at the fighting spirit of this Harvard team, which has tasted defeat and found it not to its liking. Through 60 minutes of the game last week, the audience was treated to an exhibition of "guts" on the part of Captain Herman Gundlach and his mates, such as has seldom been seen HARVARD Ford l.h.b. Bilodeau q.b. Ecker f.b. Blackwood r.h.b. Dubiel l.e. Burton l.t. Schumann l.g. Comfort c. Gundlach r.g. Watson r.t. Kelly r.e. Stromberg r.e. Beall r.t. Stillman r.g. Vincent c. Brearley l.g. Miller l.t. Shuler l.e. Grove r.h.b. King...