Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Viands, wine, cigars and flowers had been ordered. Their Britannic Majesties were prepared to receive in splendor last week a state visit from President Doumergue and Premier Briand of France. M. Doumergue's valet pondered again the advisability of a corset. Bachelor Briand submitted to a deft clipping of his (as usual) too exuberant mop of hair. All was in readiness...
When the Committee had ferreted through the accounts of Pinchot and Pepper, they examined the winning candidate's records and found that Vare, the light-wine and beer man, had spent upwards of $500,000, much of it in cash. Edward M. Kenna of Pittsburgh, of the Vare western headquarters, Allegheny County Treasurer for six years (at $6,500 a year), admitted after being pressed by Senator Reed, that he had contributed $20,000 of his own cash outright. Others in the Pittsburgh district donated amounts totaling...
...reports, one may reconstruct the Borgian episodes in which votes are used as weapons. The Pennsylvania primary, and the Wadsworth manifesto in New York are examples of the secret power of wet sentiment. For many a candidate, the prohibition issue will be as deadly a potion as ever was wine poisoned by intriguing princes. Thus, a sophisticated danger yet lurks in ballot box politics...
...martial glory and of the fairest woman on earth, so the three gentlemen each made an offer. Mr. Pepper came offering the glory of supporting the Administration. Mr. Pinchot offered the fierce pleasure of fighting for bone-dry prohibition. Mr. Vare offered the most inspiring of beverages?beer and wine...
...Symphony Hall: Coronation March Svendson Overture to "Egmont" Beethoven "Sometime" Fiorito-Jacchia Fantasia, "Mefistofele" Boito Capriccio--Burlesca Scarlatti (Orchestrated by Agide Jacchia) Procession to the Cathedral, Act II "Lohengrin" Wagner Spanish Dance, "Panaderos" Glazounov Finale, Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Indian Summer, An American Idyll Herbert Waltz, "Wine, Woman and Song" Strauss