Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money that went to establish the Bell Home for Gentlewomen. Twenty years in the U. S. brought him some wealth. So he moved to Fifth Avenue. Delmonico's was next door. Bankers and merchants would be there, eager to crowd about his table. As they poured their wine, he poured his pearls on the table, rubies, emeralds and sapphires. He taught them beauty in gems and they bought for their women. Some began to buy for investment, for he proved how the values of precious stones mount. His son Michael had even a finer genius for matching jewels...
...Which I head 50 gal wine juice in cellar on Sunday night was stolen away. Which give notice to all town and other people in country in one of the jucks was poisen was put on side and was stolen...
...adamant in his convictions, painstaking in his researches. He thoroughly believes that alcohol in his system would tarnish it, slow it up. bring on a more speedy death. He believes the same of alcohol in the nation's system. Even before Prohibition, he took only "occasional sips of wine" at his friends' tables. The Author. Tireless Mr. Fisher is not content to remain a professor of the "dismal science."- He now devotes only half of the college year to lecturing at Yale. He early wandered off into Eugenics, Hygiene, World Peace-always the scholarly crusader...
About once every season it is well for a student vagabond to wonder a little further a field in search of interesting activities. In 40 B. C. Horace the Latin poet said "Be gay Focus eat of stuffed lampreys drink of the sharp Aventine wine so long as ye are not dyspeptic...
...part. It may not be ungenerous, however, to remark that his summary (pp. 96-97) of American literature before Longfellow seems unhappy in its choice of critical epithets, and shaky in its chronology. One may be excused for disagreeing with the biographer's view that Longfellow's appreciation of wine is an "exotic note" and an escape "from the starker Puritanism of his training," when it is remembered that belief in the legitimate use of wine--and of New England rum--seems pretty well marked in successive generations of New England Puritans. It is difficult to accept the idea that...