Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public sale of alcohol. I have never seen the American saloon, but judging from what I have heard of it, it was a dangerous institution. On the other hand, I should try to induce Congress to amend the Volstead act so as to permit the private consumption of wine and beer in the states which desire it. But I should place a heavy tax upon these beverages which would bring in revenue for the Treasury and at the same time prevent drinking from becoming excessive...
...liquor toped and swizzled in Sweden has been approximately halved during the past 15 years. Arrests for drunkenness have been halved. Crimes of violence have been reduced almost two-thirds. Swedes give the credit to Dr. Ivan Bratt. Yet he has just resigned as President of the Swedish Liquor & Wine Trust: a unique corporation, doing business with the strange object of making as few sales as possible yet always paying to contented shareholders...
Though the Liquor & Wine Trust (Vins och Spritcentralen) stands rock founded upon 7%, its other principles are more interesting. The return to shareholders can never be more than 7%. The surplus profits, amounting to 46% of sales last year, are turned over to the National Treasury, and usually constitute of the revenue of Sweden. Yet even these principles are not the most interesting...
Restrictions on the passbook sales of wines resemble those on liquor, but are lenient in proportion to the "lightness" of the wine...
...plotting against the new rulers, banished to his poverty-stricken country villa. Here he was reduced to the boorish society of the pot-house-backgammon and trie trac with butcher and furnace-makers replaced learned converse with the intellectuals of Florence. Though he filled much of his time with wine, women, and oaths, he was forced out of sheer boredom to pore long hours over his beloved Latin-history, comedy, philosophy (translated from the Greek)-and set down his own political philosophy (The Prince, The Discourses), his own broad humor (Mandragola...