Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prophet protesting against Hinduism on the one hand and Muhammadanism on the other. His name was Nanak. He taught that God was neither Allah nor Ram, but simply God. He rejected the Hindu idols, caste-system, concremation of widows (suttee), pilgrimages to sacred rivers (TIME, Feb. 9). He forbade wine, tobacco, infanticide. His essential difference from Christianity was a belief in transmigration and fatalism...
...Trotzky is temperamentally a dictator who believes himself destined to rule the world. Zinoviev is a gay liver, a lover of wine, champagne and good cheer. He has suffered a lot and knew privation in his youth; and now abandons himself licentiously to pleasures. The dancers of the old Russian ballet and the beautiful women of Leningrad are flattered to be the friends of Zinoviev. Being very generous, nothing is too precious for his friends. Pearl necklaces, Imperial jewels, famous paintings, Gobelin tapestries are to be found today in the hands of the women who enjoy Zinoviev's friendship...
...municipal court has ruled that selling "decent wine" is to be distinguished from dealing out bad moonshine, in that it merits only half as large a fine. The effect of this decision on the liquor law is still uncertain, but the same principle might profitably be incorporated into college policy...
Then, with rather poor taste?a failing of the Marlboroughs?he read the menu, gloated pseudo-maliciously over the fact that cocktails went with hors d'oeuvres, sherry with the soup, sauterne with the fish, red wine with the entree, champagne with the chicken, port for toasts to the King and President, brandy with the coffee...
...Bullfighting is a sport to be appreciated only by a hot-blooded people, folk in whom an artistic bloodlust is but one among many appetites?for seething, hot colors; for the glare of white sun-light on torrid sand; for violent animal action; for full-throated screaming; for rich wine, amorous deviltries; and a swift, red death rather than a gray...