Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paderewski retold the story delightfully with one or two minor variations, such as the Englishman taking his biscuits, his port wine and his pipes. He said he was going to follow his compatriot and discuss the Polish question- but without including the elephant...
...population of France is stationary, and thus consumes no more of the staple "vin ordinaire" in one year than another. When production of French "red ink" is unusually large, the surplus must be exported or make trouble for the local wine makers. Formerly the solution used to consist in exporting largely to the U. S., although our imports of French beverages were in large measure fine wines rather than the lowly and humble "vin ordinaire." But Prohibition has now sealed this outlet, unhappily for the French...
...Abdul Kadir, was also brilliant, and his radiance attracted more ladies than even a self-respecting Turk allowed in his harem. After his father was banished to a luxurious prison in what is now Greece, Abdul Kadir migrated to Budapest where women, wine and Tsigane music swelled his collection of unpaid bills. He married the Hungarian equivalent of a Ziegfeld Follies beauty, but eventually abandoned her and the small, red heir to which she had just given birth. A few days later the Prince walked into a Budapest court in answer to a summons. The police were amazed. Further investigations...
...officials themselves do not obey it. Even the present Secretary of the Treasury, charged with the enforcement of prohibition, is obliged, in order to serve wine at his table, to violate the law which he has done either personally or through agents, by buying cellars of Washingtonians who, under the law, are not able to take out of the District of Columbia alcoholic beverages, I know that Mr Mellon has done this, because he bought red wine that I wanted myself a few years...
...most space, nigh four pages; Paul is second, Moses third. Goliath who, says the author, "was probably ten feet high," gets only a paragraph for all his bulk, nor do Og, Gog and Magog, those hairy monsters, rate more. Noah is "accredited with having discovered the process of making wine." Joseph is referred to with consummate discretion: "Presumably being attractive of person, he suffered from a malicious and entirely unfounded accusation leveled at him by Potiphar's wife -whose passion Joseph did not share." Obadiah, says Author Allen, "is a very common name in the Scriptures and none...