Word: vintner
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...interests of historical accuracy, it is perhaps well that Professor Samuel Eliot Morison should begin investigating the authenticity of Harvard's multitudinous insignia. Posterity will no doubt delight in learning that the University letterhead was filched from a Newtowne vintner, or that the proud heraldry of the Weatmorly windows is merely the unacknowledged issue of a brandy label...
...cannot be too emphatic in declaring that we are not interested in promoting the happiness of that wretched group whose only criterion of excellence in wine is the violence of its 'kick.' Let them ride white mule to maudlin joys. We have nothing to offer them." Vintner-Professor Rose, slick-haired, mundane, long famed among his friends in New Haven for the excellence of his cellar, has set down a valuable store of good, plain advice on the preparation and care of dry red wines, dry white wines, live wines...
German winegrowers, too, complained last week of low prices, overproduction. Into Berlin's famed Potsdamer Platz marched one Josef Putz, Moselle Valley vintner, pushing a large cask of Moselle in front of him. On each of the cask's heads were inscribed pleas to drink more Moselle, eschew beer and foreign wines. As a mark of his sincerity Cask-Pusher Putz had already pushed his cask from Coblenz to Cologne to Hamburg to Berlin (approximately...
...robes of state, trimmed with gold, and wearing the famous Chain of Esses (bequeathed in 1567 by ex-Lord Mayor Sir John Alen to the then Lord Mayor and his successors to "use and occupie yerely at and uppon principall and festival dayes"), Sir Alfred Bower, member of the Vintners' Company (14th Vintner to be elected Lord Mayor), athlete and bicyclist, rode in state from the Guildhall* to the Law Courts to be sworn in as Lord Mayor of London...