Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scurrilous correspondent of the wet Chicago Tribune pretended that the Summits Pontifex also said, last week, "We consider the Volstead Act immoral and contrary to the laws of Christ." Although the Savior and His disciples and the Virgin Mary did, indeed, all drink wine, it is impossible that the discreet Holy Father could have made such a remark within hearing of the world press...
...Easily, Sire!" exclaims the Dane, "I could stow you away in a single empty wine cask...
...when he reaches Cana of Galilee, this prophet of the Republican party, perhaps we shall hear of a miracle-the changing of wine back into water-diametrically opposed to the one requested by the Mother of the Master...
...Kengo Mori (amiably to the Sommelier or wine waiter): "Excellent Napoleon! But why the vintage of 1820, when Napoleon was in exile at St. Helena...
...foreword to the program of Mayor Herriot's melodrama will recall that the incident of the Danish sea captain is historic. The real Napoleon chose surrender and St. Helena, instead of a risky, ignominious flight to America. But the stage Napoleon cries: "In a wine-cask then! Give me five years, and I shall conquer the New World...