Word: vinous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prefers understatement. When it is necessary for him to lie in vinous stupor on a couch, he forms no such abandoned arabesques with his body as did John Barrymore, who acted an adaptation of this play (Redemption) several years ago. Deliberate, warm, avoiding histrionism. the current Fedya invites comparison rather with the splendid performance given by the famed German actor Alexander Moissi during last year's visit to Manhattan...
Since one or two glasses of wine per day suffice temperate Pope Pius XI, Vati can officials quietly arranged to forward much of this year's vinous flood to Rome's hospitals...
...Joneses, the Murchthaws, the Quoggses, Inchlings and Updegroves. But not before Mrs. Amy Potter joined them-the new housekeeper, a comely, cheery body from Maryland's Eastern Shore. And not before-with many a "Macte!", "Eheu!", "Hercle!" and "Conclamatum est!" from the emancipated Higbie Chaffinch - a late and vinous banquet had been served in the latter's homestead with Moggs and Kendrick Glasby present, a banquet that incited a dastardly attack by the Ku Klux Klan ("a boy scout movement for children of 40 ... footpads and submorons, Sir!") which was repelled and its leader, the Rev. Pudley, captured...