Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence would have given the $500,000 to establish breweries and plant vineyards for production of light wine and beer. He believed that would conquer whiskey, which, he said, killed half the population in his day and ruined their families. It wasn't as bad as bootleg whiskey and killed slowly, if surely...
...Association Against the Prohibition Amendment pointed out that Mr. Kresge's stores sell wine kegs, wine presses, decanters, cocktail shakers and glasses, bottling and corking machines...
Rasputin ate greedily of the cake but it did not seem to affect him. He drank poisoned wine, seemingly without effect. "Play something cheerful. I like to hear you sing," said the monk to his worried host, Prince Yussupov. He sang...
...appeared that Carol's valet, knowing his master's fiery temper, had concealed all knowledge of the theft. He had, two weeks previously, he said, been accosted on the street by an extraordinarily goodlooking young woman. She had invited him to dine and presumably to wine. He accepted the invitation. . . . Next morning, the valet continued, he woke up with a bad headache to discover that the correspondence, including his own, was gone. His letters were subsequently returned, except one which contained the names of people who had visited the Prince at his Orne Villa...
...ceilinged room in which a table was set for 50, he noted the portrait of Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds that adorns a space above the fireplace and he noted, too, the heavily timbered windows that shut out much of what little light streams in from the narrow Wine Office Court, a lane hardly more than three feet wide, on which the Cheshire Cheese abuts...