Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashioned whiskey glass contained 2 oz., 8 to the pint. Good foreign brandy contains 50% absolute alcohol, good wine 10%, good beer 5%. To become dead drunk, according to these scientific calculations, would require 1% quarts of brandy, 7% quarts of wine, 1¼ cases of beer...
...dress. The newly married pair and a few special guests were then invited to a family luncheon with His Holiness, at which the Pontiff sat at a separate table elevated above the rest of the party. The menu included galatine of pheasant, cakes with the papal colors, and Capri wine, both red and white, marsala, champagne and liqueurs...
...primrose path to higher education an not only opportunities to examine bizarre architectures and to pass off foreign language requirements; they are to be compared with the nocturnal diversions of big game weekends when everything but a desire to submerge dry and musty knowledge in the enjoyments of wine, women and song or at least song--is cast to the winds. And when those winds are of the seven seas the celebrations may last longer than a weekend and may be slightly more bacchie...
Copley--"Easy Virtue"--8.30 o'clock French wine and English muffins...
...Dempster, Ricardo Cortez). At just the wrong moment, with a fierce fanflare of natural phenomena, the ominous Satan (Adolphe Menjou), looking immensely urbane and a wee bit weary, overshadows the scene, lures away the unfortunate bride-groom-to-be from the still more unfortunate bride-to-be. Thereafter, come wine, women, and song in hellish profusion-and especially Lya de Putti, vampire extraordinaire. After a little of this, Satan chases the poor young man back to his poor sweetheart and the tenements, evidently to earn that "hour at the gates of Paradise'' which frequent subtitles guaranteed for every...