Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wine ran in Norway. Bells pealed in Rome. Headlines screamed across the broad U. S. Bright bunting shone forth in grim Alaska, where searchlights had pierced the skies during the three-hour nights. Then, slowly, mankind settled back to review and evaluate what had seemed at the moment its most spectacular feat...
Next day before the 300 proceeded to Cologne, hip flasks filled with cognac were presented to all members of the party, after they had been led by candle light through miles of wine cellars. A ballet of genuine Rhine maidens subsequently performed in one of the great cellars. Mrs. James Walker, wife of the Mayor of New York City, and an honorary member of the hotel-tour said: "This beer is the best I ever tasted...
...Eucharist. The usual procedure is to steal a portion of the consecrated bread during a mass celebrated in the ordinary way. A mock priest, robed in black, holding the cross upside down in his left hand, then performs backward the usual ceremony. The chalice is first filled with wine and then with water. The mock priest, symbolizing Satan, then eats the bread and tramples on the cross. When several persons participate, a general orgy usually follows. Louis XIV, when he celebrated the Black Mass, is said to have committed the supreme blasphemy of resting the chalice on the body...
...when that sensitive young man was trying to recover from the shock of calling on De Maupassant and finding him, not unaccompanied, in bed. He was a friend of Whistler, whose charm had an immense influence upon him and whose acid humor was not unlike his own. He drank wine with Andrew Lang; he knew Edmund Gosse and F. Hopkinson Smith, "whose books," he said of the latter, "I never could stand?or the sight of him either." Then he came back to America and began work on the etchings of forges, skyscrapers, workshops, mills, excavations, cities, that made...
Showing the effect on the lacrosse team about fighting till the last light wine is passed.--New York World, April...