Word: sipping
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...children over there, too . . . wouldn't dream of saying, 'Oh, shut up, pop' or 'Scram' to a grey-haired parent. No modernism about them. . . . The way they drink, too! Can you imagine a people that just fiddle along with an occasional sip of wine, instead of getting plastered...
...Paris the high priests of Bacchus now hold forth. But in these degenerate days no furied band of Maenads follows beloved Liber's route, for only a solemn group of graybeards meets to celebrate the triumphal offerings of the vine. They gather, whiff the sacred fragrance, and sip, nor do they ever drink to the joys of youth and songs of pleasure. They are sad, as wine has made them sad; the fields of Bacchus have been sullied by the mundane and unworthy impious of the temple of Mercury. The cratera is empty, while cases of gin replace the dusty...
...just setting, the moon just brightening when the monoplane dropped upon busy Templehof Field. The crowds broke, poured across the field with shouted "Hochs" and "Kolossals," swept the now utterly exhausted Post and Gatty to their shoulders. Feebly they tried to sip proffered champagne and immediately begged for ice water. At the airport hotel sympathetic officials finally desisted from their rapid-fire questioning, put food on the flyers' plates and bade them eat. At n p. m. they were in bed (Gatty had fallen asleep in the bathtub). At 7:30 they were Moscow bound...
...scene would spoil the "goodwill'' of the whole junket. When the party reached Rouen where another banquet was served them, Mayor Porter had been coached in the art of responding to French toasts. Instead of stalking out, he lifted his champagne glass to his lips, did not sip, did not swallow...
...high executive of the famed Compagnie Internationale des Wagon-lits. Came too the man who is reorganizing the French sugar industry, M. Edmond Sommier of the refineries that bear his name. Also M. Eugene Schneider whose big and little guns are so esteemed. Down sat all to fork and sip with such equals as Manhattan's Gates W. McGarrah, now president of Europe's B. I. S. (Bank for International Settlements) and Mr. John Ridgely Carter, a partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s Paris house...