Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stark Young−"The lustre of it, the health and deviltry . . . wit that runs and pours like wine...
...that runs and pours like wine...
...crowds of students patrolled the streets of the Latin Quartier, traffic was held up. Here and there, a few venturesome voices sang the Internationale, which was instantly drowned in roars of the Marseillaise. All doors were picketed by groups of students who had wisely provided themselves with food and wine. Shouts of "Conspuez Herriot!" (literally, "Spit upon Herriot!"), "A has Georges Scelle!'' "Vive le roil" "A has la Republique!" were frequently heard. Police and the Garde Republicaine were called out, attempted to restore order...
...word "wine", so objectionable to sensitive souls of today, has been changed to "raisin-cake" in a new Bible published by Charles Scribner's Sons. To further the good work of Scriptural regeneration, the Uplift Societies must now get busy upon certain other errata in the texts which, though not so demoralizing as the wine passages, are nevertheless capable of improvement. Joseph's narrow escape from Mrs. Potiphar, for example, might be changed--indeed must be changed to read as follows...
Conflicts between Socialists and Communists took place in Paris at two meetings. At one, Millionaire Deputy Leon Blum, Socialist, was hit in the face by a wine glass and knocked practically senseless. Several of M. Blum's colleagues were also roughly treated. A Communist, armed with the legbone of an ox, stamped around the meeting room, shouted that he wanted "the whole world to bleed...