Word: vinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman group which will play in the preliminary game at 6:30 o'clock with the B.U. Yearlings may have difficulty, but it is unlikely. The Freshman squad this year is stronger than it has been for some seasons. Since Vin Horrigan and Tread Rumi were both good working centers, Ruml has been converted into a forward. Coach Adolph Samborski has been pointing his outfit for this game during the past week, and the Yearlings should put on a finished performance
...Angeles Museum will soon place on exhibition a great gallery of waxworks, all of the figures to be clad in original and valuable costumes. Artistically the Los Angeles Museum is ready to take its place beside famed Mme Tussaud's in London, the Musée Grévin in Paris...
...under compilation an exhaustive Wine Gotha or Who's Who among French vintages. Next year the Academic des Oenophiles will publish this Wine Gotha with its august imprimatur. Last week their president dictated a skeleton summary of French "good years," emphasizing that they apply only to the grand vin or superior grades of wine, particularly those bottled at the chateau. Good years, with the best in italics...
...sale of his records. His widow still gets about $200 per month in royalties. His plaintive voice still yodeled last week from honkytonks in Port-au-Prince, cantinas in Colon, dives in Sidney. Lately Jimmie Rodgers' name was given additional immortality. Compañia Vinícola Hispano Americano of Panama City put a Jimmie Rodgers rum on the market...
Author Carmer went to the University of Alabama, near Tuscaloosa, as associate professor of English. He was greeted hospitably, despite the fact that he was born in New York State. On his first evening in Tuscaloosa he made the acquaintance of the Southern vin du pays, corn whiskey. He never learned to like it, calls it "as vile and as uglily potent a liquor as ever man has distilled." One day in class he made the innocent mistake of comparing Tuscaloosa's picturesqueness with a North African city. "On the next day six serious young men waited upon...