Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cool Italian wine was brought to him by an aged, cheerful monk who refused payment. The bricklayer, refreshed, at peace, opened the portly Hospice Register before journeying on, inscribed his bold autograph: Benito Mussolini . . . Aug. 5, 1903. Last week an itinerant newsgatherer unearthed this autograph, sent news of it humming over the cables. Signor Mussolini's intimates, not displeased, reminded his detractors that even as a bricklayer and before that as a hod-carrier, the young Benito revealed the titanic spiritual vigor which later made him master of Italy. Few are possessed of so little "hindsight" that they cannot...
...recently passed legislation (TIME, Aug. 9 et seq.) creating an autonomous sinking fund outside Parliamentary control from which the internal debt will be repaid under the supervision of non-partisan experts. Beside the accomplishment of this great purpose the cost of a few beds, of a little beer and wine, was not consequential...
they will lift the precious wine to drink a toast to their departed frends and a salute to their own Deaths...
Their appeal heard, registered, the Sheriffs observed their immemorial custom of presenting each doorkeeper of the House with a bottle of port wine...
Serene, he resides complacently at the luxurious Palais d'Elysee, gives his famous "little banquets," sips the wine of life as a connoiseur...