Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...social insurance card showing that he is 146 years old and entitled to draw a pension of 50 rubles ($27.50) a month. Peasant Shapkofski has only one tooth left and therefore does not eat as heartily as he did a few years ago. But he still drinks plenty of wine. His last child, a daughter, was born when he was 120 years...
...youth he slaved at loading kegs of oil and casks of wine onto tramp-ships, signed on as a sailor, outsmarted many another, and presently owned his own wallowing, chugging tramp steamer. His escalator to Monte Carlo is darkly whispered to have been the white slaving slums of Marseilles. If that trail exists it has been well covered, nay, completely effaced. The smart world will remember "The Greek" solely in his sleek role of banker at Deauville or Cannes...
...despatches from the Cairo newspaper Mokattam that diggers have found the rich tomb of Solomon's favorite wife Moti Maris of Memphis, on the Mount of the Temple (Jerusalem's Mount Moriah). With the body was a scroll in which Solomon, supposedly, wrote: "When Moti poured the wine into the cups I noticed that Amerto [her malicious father] did not extend his hand. Nevertheless, I unsuspectingly raised my cup to my lips. Thereupon Moti snatched the cup and drank the [poisoned] wine herself...
...game of Mah Jong in Mukden, remote Manchurian Capital. Also sitting in was General Chang Yin-huai, another faithful officer of old times. Softly the tiles rattled, and courteously the game began. Not until midnight neared did Young Chang excuse himself momentarily, leaving the Generals in mellow mood over wine and sweetmeats...