Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boys who comprise the gangs have to undergo rigorous initiations before being qualified for membership. In one of the more exclusive gangs initiates, usually aged about nine, have to drink twelve glasses of dago-red wine and have a revolver pressed into their temples while they take the pledge. Another gang demands that all members swear vengeance upon anyone who shall wrong a fellow constituent-an oath which is carried...
...opening verse: Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine, and there are more than hints of more. Young Uldine, with her shiny scrubbed face, has been quoted as saying that flappers do not get their flapper ways from the Bible...
...Palmerston shocked England by opposing compulsory chapel at Cambridge. "Is it either essential or expedient that young men should be compelled to rush from their beds every morning to prayers, unwashed, unshaved, and half dressed; or, in the evening, from their wine to chapel, and from chapel back again to their wine...
...University few have served a greater diversity of purposes than Harvard Hall, now chiefly noted for its bell and long since overshadowed by Sever, Emerson, and Widener. From the time of its construction in the seventeenth century it has been used as general University headquarters. Revolutionary barracks, and wine and grocery store...
...triumph of American industry, Reno hotel men cannot sit back too blandly and wait for the dollars to pour in. In Paris a lively bootlegging trade has begun by which a divaree may be secured in three weeks for as little as 1,000 dollars plus passage and wine costs'. Worst of all is the possibility that such men as Senator Borah may effect a renewal of relations with Russia, where divorce is only a matter of minutes, and does not even require proofs of dementia praecox, chronic alcoholism, or sadism. The Soviet might almost stabilize the trouble...