Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steal out and sit with his protectress before her fire-but no chance to escape ever came. Not until Oct. 10, 1918, did the Germans march away. Then Private Fowler took Mme. Belmont-Gobert in his arms, dashed water over her face and gave her a sup of wine-she had fainted...
POWER - Lion Feuchtwanger - Viking Press ($2.50). The handsome, malevolent features of Joseph Suss Oppenheimer leer through hazy German history. A moneylender, fawning but audacious, he makes himself indispensable to Duke Karl Alexander of Swabia, the peace of whose hairy bosom depends only upon war, wine and women. As finance minister, Suss rises to a cruel, dizzy pinnacle, from which he plunges voluntarily when his duties as procurer for the ducal bed involve his own daughter. He avenges her suicide and atones, with racial intensity, on the execution platform.... The treatment of prodigious figures in a pageantric time...
...College authorities also evidently kept an eye on charge accounts, as evidenced by the decree that "no Undergraduate shall go or send to any Inn holder or Retailor within three miles of ye College for any strong Beer, Brandy, Rum. Wine or other spirituous Liquors, without paying immediately for ye same...
...stormed M. Grange, "can anyone play billiards on ice water? I want wine, one small bottle with my meals. With wine I could cut in half the odds against...
...Frenchman was an extreme outsider at the time, his chance for the title being considered a 30-to-1 shot. Subsequently and presumably without wine he provided the tournament with its sensation by winning his match from Willie Hoppe, defending champion...