Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, who had been abroad for two months. Surely the adjectives applied by the bargees were out of order; they had read, no doubt, in spare moments, accounts of the Mayor's whiskey-tippling in England, his beer-drinking in Germany, his liquid luncheons in Italy, his wine-bibbing in France and his miscellaneous guzzlings in bars and on trains elsewhere. But they had not read the Mayor's most recent wireless message from on board the Ile de France: "It was to get a broader and more comprehensive view of city problems and their correction that...
...University, few have served a greater diversity of purposes than Harvard Hall, noted for its bell which acts as an alarm clock to the seniors. From the time of its construction in the seventeenth century it has been used as general University headquarters, Revolutionary barracks, grocery store and wine shop...
...returned home last fortnight. Mizpah was used by the Israelites as a fortress and capital during the Babylonian invasion. Its walls were 16 feet to 25 feet thick. Stratified ruins revealed civilizations stretching back from 500 to 3000 B. C. In a 7th Century B. C. cellar were found wine jars and a statue of the Egyptian...
...cheer the oncoming Germans. . . . At 3 p. m. Sunday favorable weather reports sent the word sizzling over Germany that two Junkers monoplanes would start for the U. S. Cornelius Edzard and Johann Risticz, Herman Koehl and Friederich Loose, flyers, sat down to hearty dinners of soup, venison, pork, coffee, wine, beer...
...Recently Princess Helene of Greece and Rumania took her son, King Michael, to communion. When the priest was about to offer the consecrated wine to the boy king as he knelt before the altar, Michael said simply: "I don't drink wine in the morning." The priest assured the royal youngster that holy wine was not the same as other wine and that he must take at least a sip if he wanted to be a good boy and receive the blessing. After looking over at his mother, who wore an expression of mingled pain and amusement, Michael finally...