Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dote on wine, women...
...Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella, Premier of Spain, with "a figure like a Bartlett pear," with a fondness for ladies: "In demanding a rigid press censorship for Spain, I last week remarked: 'I have a number of vices and weaknesses which I never attempted to hide, but wine is not one of them.' Also, the news came out last week that King Alfonso will be unable to carry out the Holy Week custom of pardoning a murderer, for the simple reason that there is no one in Spain awaiting execution. It is well known that...
...completion of the nearby Step Pyramid, under the wall of which it lay. Or perhaps it was Zoser's queen's tomb. The sarcophagus, still hidden, would tell. Meantime the diggers marveled at a maze of deep tunnels, at remains of blue tiling, at a dozen alabaster wine jars...
Made the pale wine of love that is not love...
...same day, in New York, Augustus Noble Hand, learned Judge of the U. S. District Court made a ruling. Ten barrels of grape-juice once reposed in the cellar of one Mrs. Josephine Maltone; a provident Nature turned them into a goodly wine with a 13% "kick." They were seized by Federal authorities, legally, Judge Hand held. He ruled: "Possession of grape juice for home use . . . becomes unlawful . . . whenever the liquid becomes intoxicating, whether through natural fermentation or otherwise." Thus he sternly interpreted the paragraph of the Volstead Act that states that a householder needs no permit and cannot...