Word: vino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racing Earls of Derby 153 years ago to amuse a boisterous party of dinner guests. Only twice in all those years did their house win it. The twelfth earl won in 1787. Roseate, rotund Edward George Villiers Stanley, the present Lord Derby, won it in 1924 with Sanso-vino, thereby gratifying one of his two life wishes.* Last week he surprised himself by winning it again, this time with Hyperion...
...hand President Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno last week bade his people celebrate Martes de carnes-tolendas (Mardi Gras) with fitting abandon. Ahead were 40 days of fasting & prayer, but for Fat Tuesday the Rio Guayas had yielded many fish to be eaten; there were many casks full of vino tinto to be drunk; on almost every corner in bustling Guayaquil were vendors with carts laden with confetti, streamers and chizguetes (perfume squirters).* President Baquerizo Moreno had given his own granddaughter, Senorita Rosa Piedad Baquerizo, to be Queen of Carnival. Let the people be gay. Was not that Liberal leader and troublemaker...
From the rise of the second-act curtain to the end of the play the comedy is delightful. If the romantic moments fail to convince one of the sincerity of Ronnie as much as the "in vino veritas" moments of the drinking scene, it is not entirely the actor's fault. Where Miss Crothers' pen strays from the high road of comedy into her beloved bypaths of sentimentality the play is decidedly less interesting and certainly less well acted. At several points there is the dread possibility that sentimentality may prevail, but by a miracle the demon is kept just...
...Ancona, Italy, firemen rushed to a burning house, found no water with which to extinguish the flames. Ancona's ingenious firemen attached their hose to a barrel of wine, put out the fire with vino rosso...
Thus was started what promises to be a major court test of Section 29 and the flourishing business of urban wine-making in the home. Karl Offer, national manager of Vino Sano, wired Attorney General Mitchell from California that he alone was responsible for the wine bricks and wanted to be included in any forthcoming indictments. He also sought the legal assistance of Mrs. Willebrandt, Vine-Glo's counsel, in working up a defense for his employes, but that lady enigmatically replied: "Sorry, but I never take Prohibition cases...