Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfect copy of Dickens' "Pickwick Papers" for $28,000. If money can be considered a criterion of any value, it apparently indicates in this case that the plump little Mr. Pickwick still does not fall to cut a favorable figure, while the Messrs. Weller and Snodgrass empty the wine keg. Such characters as these are too well established in literature to be dislodged by any trifling fancies of the time...
Married. Anton Seidel, farmer's son, and Theresa Schwarz, village belle; in Sotine, Jugoslavia. There were 2,750 invited and uninvited guests who consumed, during nine days and nights of celebration, six cows, 16 calves, 600 chickens, 300 turkeys, 20,000 quarts of beer, 10,000 quarts of wine, 200 quarts of plum whiskey, then they fell into haystacks, slept two days and two nights...
Regally imperious must be the wife who would venture forth with the Cadillac-Fleetwood King Henry VIII, sumptuously decorated in wine, red and silver after the Holbein portrait...
Scanners of the treaty thought it a slender theme for the exercise of Mr. Lee's imposing talents. The Wine Bureau will merely attempt to develop the international wine trade, "in accordance with the laws of each country," by releasing data "tending to demonstrate the beneficial effects of wine," and by sponsoring laboratory experiments "to demonstrate the hygienic qualities of wine and its influence as an agent in the fight against alcoholism (i.e. against "hard liquor...
...Death, Helen decided, was better than a half-mad Menelaus who thought her just a shadow creature, and perhaps death would not come so long as she could smile. Packed away there was another potion that might restore him. Aithra warned her but she took no notice, clapped for wine and balsam and herself brewed the cup of quietude that proved to be remembrance and pathway to a happy ending...