Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no question, but that a little wine 'for the stomach's sake' represents a real therapeutic result and has an action not on the stomach but on its nearest neighbour, the heart...
...spirits of 123 dead emperors were watching, and the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-0-Makimi listened to the young Prince as he spoke the name of his bride. Then Prince and bride exchanged the San-san-kudo, the "three times three," each drinking three times of saké (rice wine) from each of three divine cups. Then they spoke to the ancestors, and the marriage was complete...
...lazy and as delightful as an afternoon on an ocean liner in calm weather. Yet, at one time, she stepped up her speed to 81 m.p.h. Over Heidelberg, she cast her shadow on pigmy castles and at Stuttgart solemnly circled the grave of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Wine, ham and eggs, etc., were served above Freiburg, Baden-Baden and Constance. But there was NO SMOKING, for fire is the arch enemy of airships...
...politely by what right or authority Dr. Walker assumes this 'Temporal Dominion' in the United States? ... I have not the pleasure of knowing Mr. Volstead personally, but I am unwilling to believe that he is wiser or better than the Lord Jesus Christ, who not only used wine but . . . made...
...golf, children; his is a supremely introversive ego. This good piece recounts the story of John Payson, green-ired husband of Nan. John (John Boles) wants to lead his wife's life. From an afternooon party Nan (Leatrice Joy) comes home befuddled, having been locked accidentally in the wine-cellar of Jules Moret (H. B. Warner) whose name alone, as every cinemaddict knows, reeks of malevolence, depravity. When John flays Nan she departs, gets a job as a companion. Her employer, it so happens, is Moret's mistress. Soon the mistress suspects an affair between Moret & Nan. deserts...