Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same were the three men in the Last Man's Club of Stillwater, Minn., that you told about in the same issue. They were saps! They should have waited until only one (instead of three) was left alive of the original 34 that put away the bottle of wine. Then the one man should have drunk the bottle up on the stage of a big-time vaudeville "benefit...
...Careening through life with the impetus of a cannon ball, Balzac dashed into love affairs at every turn. His first two mistresses were twice his age. People of all sorts, from grocery clerks to emperors, fired his imagination to write about them. In the meantime, he loved carriages, good wine, sleek clothes, expensive food. He ran up debts of 150,000 francs and trying to extricate himself by scatter-brained schemes, increased them. His economic principle was that spending more money means the necessity for earning more money, and as his only sure way of earning more money...
...flapperish Cleopatra whose acquaintance we make in perusing the "Diary." She boldly describes her appearance in Rome as the public mistress of Caesar and forthwith begins to criticize Rome, Caesar, and every one else except Antony and a few other of the Roman jeunesse doree whose appetites for wine and illicit love are as strong as hers. Her philosophy is Hedonistic; she proclaims herself a sensualist and not satisfied with the fast pace of the Romans she attempts to outdistance them. It is very plain that the author has carefully studied all of the vices of ancient Rome...
...however, it quickly became obvious that an "excursionist," unless roped, hog-tied and branded as such, could not possibly be distinguished from a "tourist." Any U. S. citizen who found himself in Ontario and considered himself to be a Canadian tourist could secure a tourist permit and quaff beer, wine, ale, whiskey, champagne, gin, in any legal "residence," including his hotel room...
...shrewd madman, peoples his palaces in imagination with the grands seigneurs and ladies of France. "They make the best company," says Ludwig, "because they always go at the first hint from me." Banquets are given, to "the King of France." Ludwig presides, and bewildered Bavarian lackeys must pour out wine and serve viands to a dozen guests who are not there. King Ludwig jests gravely with the empty chair in which is supposed to sit Louis XVI. To Marie Antoinette the sly Ludwig pays less attention. He must not rouse the husband's suspicions ?clever Ludwig! She will slip...